Since the future role of Laboratory Medicine is strongly and equally challenged by economic
and new technological pressures, it is essential to take a broad view of the discipline and …

Technological developments and economic drivers have led to major changes in clinical
laboratories worldwide, principally represented by an increase in testing productivity and …

Laboratory medicine has undergone a sea change, and medical laboratories must now
adapt to, and meet new, customer-supplier needs springing from shifts in the patterns of …

Clinical laboratories should, therefore, assume some responsibility for the whole cycle of
testing, including appropriateness of test request and interpretation, so that the reported data …

The 21st century challenge is to redesign healthcare systems to be safe, efficient, effective,
timely, equitable and patient-centred. Although laboratory medicine is integral to many of …

The position of clinical chemistry within the discipline of laboratory medicine is firmly
established. As a result, pathologists, chemists, and scientists have been attracted to an …

Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine would now argue that this has probably little to do with
our education, expertise and daily activities, at least until exploring the full list of papers …

The role of laboratory medicine is essential in healthcare, since in vitro diagnostic testing
represents now an unavoidable part of reasoning and clinical decision making. Laboratory …

A body of evidence collected in the last few decades demonstrates that the pre-and post-
analytical phases of the testing cycle are more error-prone than the analytical phase …

In an effort to reduce the cost of healthcare in general and laboratory testing in particular,
laboratory consolidations, outsourcing of services, and hostile takeovers of hospital …