Quality and future of clinical laboratories: the Vico's whole cyclical theory of the recurring cycles.
Summary of "Quality and future of clinical laboratories: the Vico's whole cyclical theory of the recurring cycles."
In the last few decades, laboratory medicine has undergone monumental changes, and laboratory technology, which has made enormous advances, now has new clinical applications thanks to the identification of a growing number of biomarkers and risk factors conducive to the promotion of predictive and preventive interventions that have enhanced the role of laboratory medicine in health care delivering. However, the paradigm shift in the past 50 years has led to a gap between laboratory and clinic, with an increased risk of inappropriateness in test request and interpretation, as well as the consolidation of analytical work in focused factories and megastructurers oriented only toward achieving greater volumes, decreasing cost per test and generating a vision of laboratory services as simple commodities. A careful historical revision of the changing models for delivering laboratory services in the United States leads to the prediction that there are several reasons for counteracting the vision of clinical laboratory as a commodity, and restoring the true nature of laboratory services as an integral part of the diagnosis and therapy process. The present study, which reports on internal and external drivers for change, proposes an integrated vision of quality in laboratory medicine.
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Name: Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine
ISSN: 1437-4331
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- PubMed Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29427552
- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/cclm-2018-0009
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