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Stat laboratory testing: integration or autonomy?

  • Giuliano Soffiati and Davide Giavarina
Published/Copyright: May 4, 2010
Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine
From the journal Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine Volume 48 Issue 7

Abstract

Laboratory turnaround times (TATs) for urgent (Stat) tests are indicators of efficiency, and many clinicians consider prolonged TAT one of the most important causes for delay in transferring patients from emergency departments. Here, we present a review of the main proposed solutions, dependent on size, organization models and mission of the hospital. Although there is no clear evidence that laboratory TAT could be directly related to patient care, we need to continuously evaluate each laboratories performance by comparing them to patient outcomes.

Clin Chem Lab Med 2010;48:927–30.

Keywords: automation; emergency laboratory; laboratory service delivery; length of stay; outcomes; process improvement; turnaround time
Corresponding author: Giuliano Soffiati, Laboratorio di Chimica Clinica ed Ematologia, Ospedale S. Bortolo, 36100 Vicenza, Italy Phone: +39 0444 753254, Fax: +39 0444 752501,
Published Online: 2010-05-4
Published in Print: 2010-07-01

©2010 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin New York

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https://doi.org/10.1515/CCLM.2010.187
Keywords for this article
automation; emergency laboratory; laboratory service delivery; length of stay; outcomes; process improvement; turnaround time

Articles in the same Issue

  1. HIGHLIGHT: LABORATORY DIAGNOSTICS IN THE THIRD MILLENIUM: WHERE, HOW AND WHY
  2. Editorial
  3. Foreword
  4. Reviews
  5. Roots, development and future directions of laboratory medicine
  6. The “hospital central laboratory”: automation, integration and clinical usefulness
  7. Clinical pathology services: remapping our strategic itinerary
  8. Stat laboratory testing: integration or autonomy?
  9. Point-of-care testing in critical care: the clinician's point of view
  10. Reproductive-endocrine point-of-care testing: current status and limitations
  11. Laboratory testing in pharmacies
  12. Laboratory testing during critical care transport: point-of-care testing in air ambulances
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  24. Evaluation of the TEST 1 erythrocyte sedimentation rate system and intra- and inter-laboratory quality control using new latex control materials
  25. Letter to the Editor
  26. Phlebotomy site haemolysis rates vary inversely with workload
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