Journal articles: 'Laboratory services'

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Wright, James R. "Calgary Laboratory Services." Academic Pathology 2, no. 4 (October 29, 2015): 237428951561994. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2374289515619944.

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Hutchison, A. G., J. R. Louden, P. Tansey, J. Mowat, D. Ballantyne, H. B. Howie, and A. C. Smith. "Rationalising laboratory services." BMJ 300, no. 6723 (February 24, 1990): 540. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.300.6723.540-a.

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Turner, R. D. "Commissioning laboratory services." Molecular Pathology 54, no. 4 (August 1, 2001): 225–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/mp.54.4.225.

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Webb, J. N. "Centralised laboratory services." Lancet 335, no. 8700 (May 1990): 1284. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0140-6736(90)91353-c.

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Zealley, Helen. "Centralised laboratory services." Lancet 335, no. 8705 (June 1990): 1595–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0140-6736(90)91428-d.

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Akhtar, Muhammad Shoaib. "Outsourcing of Clinical Laboratory Services in Pakistan." International Journal of Frontier Sciences 2, no. 1 (January 1, 2018): 1–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.37978/tijfs.v2i1.27.

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Primary and Secondary Healthcare Department of Punjab Government, Pakistan owns 25 district headquarter hospitals, 100 tehsil headquarter hospitals and a number of rural health centres and basic health units. Currently, the department started process of revamping in hospitals and other healthcare delivery centres. In first phase, revamping of infrastructure and services of 25 district headquarter and 15 tehsil headquarter hospitals was started. For better care to patients and service delivery, services of janitorial and security were outsourced to private service providers. Now, the department plans to improve diagnostic services in these hospitals. For this purpose, laboratory and radiology services were planned to outsource. Islamabad Diagnostic Centre and Northshore Medical Labs are the two service providers who are to provide clinical laboratory services in selected hospitals. Islamabad Diagnostic Centre (Private Limited) is a leading diagnostic centre in Islamabad (Federal capital of Islamic Republic of Pakistan) which is ISO 151589:2012. While, Northshore Medical Labs is an American laboratory located and registered in New York State Department of Health and accredited by College of American Pathologist. It is expected to enhance clinical laboratory services standard by outsourcing of these laboratory services. First such laboratory became functional in District Headquarter Hospital Chakwal last month. Although the contract between outsourced laboratory and department describes upraising of services and quality standard by following MSDS and departmental proficiency testing.

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Galloway, M. J. "Provision of laboratory services." Journal of Clinical Pathology 43, no. 11 (November 1, 1990): 965–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jcp.43.11.965-c.

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GUPTA, V. P. "UTILIZATION OF LABORATORY SERVICES." Therapeutic Drug Monitoring 21, no. 4 (August 1999): 431. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00007691-199908000-00022.

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Yan, Yuhong, Yong Liang, Abhijeet Roy, and Xinge Du. "Web Service Enabled Online Laboratory." International Journal of Web Services Research 6, no. 4 (October 2009): 75–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jwsr.2009071304.

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Online experimentation allows students from anywhere to operate remote instruments at any time. The current techniques constrain users to bind to products from one company and install client side software. We use Web services and Service Oriented Architecture to improve the interoperability and usability of the remote instruments. Under a service oriented architecture for online experiment system, a generic methodology to wrap commercial instruments using IVI and VISA standard as Web services is developed. We enhance the instrument Web services into stateful services so that they can manage user booking and persist experiment results. We also benchmark the performance of this system when SOAP is used as the wire format for communication and propose solutions to optimize performance. In order to avoid any installation at the client side, the authors develop Web 2.0 based techniques to display the virtual instrument panel and real time signals with just a standard Web browser. The technique developed in this article can be widely used for different real laboratories, such as microelectronics, chemical engineering, polymer crystallization, structural engineering, and signal processing.

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Weinstein, D., R. Geler, M. Prienty, and G. Rashid. "Digital laboratory project - A revolution in laboratory services." Clinica Chimica Acta 493 (June 2019): S686. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cca.2019.03.1521.

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Brzozowski, Bob, and Fred Posey. "Outsourcing Industrial Hygiene Laboratory Services." Synergist 15, no. 8 (2004): 38. http://dx.doi.org/10.3320/1.2928473.

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EBRAHIM, G. J. "Laboratory Services in Developing Countries." Journal of Tropical Pediatrics 38, no. 2 (April 1, 1992): 50–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/tropej/38.2.50.

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Ciaffoni, Orlando, Maria Lorenza Ferrer, Giovanni Mirabelli, and Luciano Trasatti. "Optical networks and laboratory services." Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 257, no. 3 (July 1987): 632–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0168-9002(87)90975-2.

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Murphy, M. F., S. Allard, and A. C. Newland. "Modernizing hospital transfusion laboratory services." Transfusion Medicine 19, no. 4 (August 2009): 153–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3148.2009.00937.x.

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Rosita, Betti, and Ulfa Khairani. "ANALISIS LAMA WAKTU PELAYANAN LABORATORIUM DI RUMAH SAKIT UMUM DAERAH PASAMAN BARAT." JURNAL KESEHATAN PERINTIS (Perintis's Health Journal) 5, no. 1 (June 29, 2018): 114–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.33653/jkp.v5i1.153.

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Hospital laboratory services is one of the activities in hospitals that support quality health services. One indicator of the success of health services in the field of clinical pathology laboratory services is the waiting time for laboratory services. The standard set for laboratory service outcome waiting time is ≤ 140 minutes for blood chemistry and routine blood. This research analyzed the service time of outpatient laboratory that conducted hematology and clinical chemistry examination in the laboratory of Pasaman Barat Hospital. This research is a type of descriptive analytic research that is quantitative and supported by qualitative using cross sectional approach. The result of the research showed that laboratory service time at RSUD Pasaman Barat fulfilled the standard (≤ 140 minutes) for hematology examination 33.94 minutes, clinical chemistry 83.92 minutes, hematology and clinical chemistry 98 minutes. Based on the results of this study, the stages that contribute to the length of time laboratory services for hematological examination lies in the pre analytical stage, for clinical chemistry examination is located at the analytical stage, as well as for hematology and clinical chemistry examination lies in the analytic stage as well as the factors that affect the length of time laboratory services are human resources that is in the ability of officers and infrastructure facilities

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Akhtar, Muhammad Shoaib, Taslim Rubab, and Ummair Mehmood. "Evaluation of Clinical Laboratory Performance as a Procuring Agency." International Journal of Frontier Sciences 3, no. 2 (July 1, 2019): 108–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.37978/tijfs.v3i2.56.

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Primary and Secondary Healthcare Department of Punjab, Pakistan has outsourced its clinical laboratory services at various secondary level hospitals in the province. Methodology adapted to outsource these facilities was based on phasing out the process. While methodology adapted to selection of service provider was on the basis of bidding. Two service providers contracted the procuring agency to deliver services to general public. In the first phase, clinical laboratory services of DHQ Hospital Chakwal were outsourced to a private laboratory service of the country. This communication aims on the methods adopted by Pathology Department of the hospital to evaluate the technical efficiency of the service.

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Golitzinsky, Michel. "Motion Picture Laboratory Services Technology (L6)." SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal 116, no. 9 (September 2007): 344. http://dx.doi.org/10.5594/j16075.

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Bates, Imelda. "Training trainers to improve laboratory services." Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 93, no. 4 (July 1999): 357–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0035-9203(99)90111-6.

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Hargreaves, Sally. "Time to prioritise tuberculosis laboratory services." Lancet Infectious Diseases 3, no. 10 (October 2003): 606. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1473-3099(03)00791-6.

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Lee, Graham R., Maria C. Fitzgibbon, and Paula O'Shea. "Laboratory services: regaining and maintaining control." International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance 29, no. 5 (June 13, 2016): 507–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijhcqa-08-2015-0098.

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Purpose – After implementing an internal quality control (IQC) programme, the purpose of this paper is to maintain the requisite analytical performance for clinical laboratory staff, thereby safeguarding patient test results for their intended medical purpose. Design/methodology/approach – The authors address how quality can be maintained and if lost, how it can be regained. The methodology is based on the experience working in clinical laboratory diagnostics and is in accord with both international accreditation requirements and laboratory best practice guidelines. Findings – Monitoring test performance usually involves both prospective and retrospective IQC data analysis. The authors present a number of different approaches together with software tools currently available and emerging, that permit performance monitoring at the level of the individual analyser, across analysers and laboratories (networks). The authors make recommendations on the appropriate response to IQC rule warnings, failures and metrics that indicate analytical control loss, that either precludes further analysis, or signifies deteriorating performance and eventual unsuitability. The authors provide guidance on systematic troubleshooting, to identify undesirable performance and consider risk assessment preventive measures and continuous quality improvement initiatives; e.g., material acceptance procedures, as tools to help regain and maintain analytical control and minimise potential for patient harm. Practical implications – The authors provide a template for use by laboratory scientific personnel that ensures the optimal monitoring of analytical test performance and response when it changes undesirably. Originality/value – The proposed template has been designed to meet the International Organisation for Standardisation for medical laboratories ISO15189:2012 requirements and therefore includes the use of External Quality Assessment and patient results data, as an adjunct to IQC data.

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Griffey, Paul A. "Providing Laboratory Services to the ER." Laboratory Medicine 27, no. 2 (February 1, 1996): 84–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/labmed/27.2.84.

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Sadowska, Mariola, Colette Burgess, Latreece Nance, and Joseph Bryant. "220 The Translational Laboratory Shared Services." JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes 51 (June 2009): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/01.qai.0000351176.64090.c0.

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Corcoran, Patricia. "Essential Laboratory Services in Blood Transfusion." Vox Sanguinis 67, no. 5 (1994): 30–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000462772.

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Corcoran, Patricia. "Essential Laboratory Services in Blood Transfusion." Vox Sanguinis 67 (November 1994): 30–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1423-0410.1994.tb05170.x.

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de Wilde, E. J. L., P. Pop, A. Hasman, and J. A. Blom. "OpenLabs services for ordering laboratory investigations." Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine 50, no. 2 (July 1996): 135–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0169-2607(96)01742-n.

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Fryer, Anthony A., and W. Stuart A. Smellie. "Managing demand for laboratory tests: a laboratory toolkit." Journal of Clinical Pathology 66, no. 1 (September 26, 2012): 62–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jclinpath-2011-200524.

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Healthcare budgets worldwide are facing increasing pressure to reduce costs and improve efficiency, while maintaining quality. Laboratory testing has not escaped this pressure, particularly since pathology investigations cost the National Health Service £2.5 billion per year. Indeed, the Carter Review, a UK Department of Health-commissioned review of pathology services in England, estimated that 20% of this could be saved by improving pathology services, despite an average annual increase of 8%–10% in workload. One area of increasing importance is managing the demands for pathology tests and reducing inappropriate requesting. The Carter Review estimated that 25% of pathology tests were unnecessary, representing a huge potential waste. Certainly, the large variability in levels of requesting between general practitioners suggests that inappropriate requesting is widespread. Unlocking the key to this variation and implementing measures to reduce inappropriate requesting would have major implications for patients and healthcare resources alike. This article reviews the approaches to demand management. Specifically, it aims to (a) define demand management and inappropriate requesting, (b) assess the drivers for demand management, (c) examine the various approaches used, illustrating the potential of electronic requesting and (d) provide a wider context. It will cover issues, such as educational approaches, information technology opportunities and challenges, vetting, duplicate request identification and management, the role of key performance indicators, profile composition and assessment of downstream impact of inappropriate requesting. Currently, many laboratories are exploring demand management using a plethora of disparate approaches. Hence, this review seeks to provide a ‘toolkit’ with the view to allowing laboratories to develop a standardised demand management strategy.

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Ellison, Mark J., and Doyle M. Cummings. "Pharmacokinetics Laboratory and Consultation Service for Ambulatory Patients." Journal of Pharmacy Practice 5, no. 1 (February 1992): 37–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/089719009200500108.

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When implementing clinical pharmacokinetics consultation services for ambulatory patients, one should strongly consider developing an outpatient pharmacokinetics laboratory. Published literature clearly documents the benefits of clinical pharmacokinetics services. In addition, there are educational, financial, and research advantages to creating an outpatient pharmacokinetics laboratory. One should demonstrate the need for the service; determine the scope of services; design patient and specimen work flow; decide what personnel, space, and equipment are needed; and justify costs and revenue. Recent federal legislation, such as the Clinical Laboratory Improvements Amendments and the Occupational Exposure to Hazardous Chemical in Laboratories Act (1988), will have a significant positive impact on an outpatient pharmacokinetics laboratory.

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McQueen, M. J., and A. J. Bailey. "Hamilton Health Sciences Laboratory Program: A Provider Developed Model for Hospital, University and Community Laboratory Services." Healthcare Management Forum 6, no. 3 (October 1993): 35–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0840-4704(10)61104-0.

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Clinical Laboratory Sciences are under pressure to reduce the number of tests and cut staff and supply costs. The ability of academic centres to continue to deliver high quality service, teaching and research is threatened. In difficult economic times imaginative strategies are needed to look for solutions which will permit continued advancement in academic and clinical standards. Rationalization of service and cost-effective use of resources are not new concepts; however, there is a scarcity of models which have been developed and promoted by the providers of laboratory services, rather than those imposed by governments and other paying agencies. A model developed and evolved over the last two decades by The Hamilton Health Sciences Laboratory Program (HHSLP) is outlined.

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Huyser, C. "Affordable ART services in Africa: synthesis and adaptation of laboratory services." ESHRE Monographs 2008, no. 1 (July 1, 2008): 77–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/humrep/den139.

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Prakash, Satyam. "Increasing Trends in Unhealthy Practices of Clinical Laboratory Medicine Service in Nepal." Janaki Medical College Journal of Medical Science 5, no. 1 (August 9, 2017): 33–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jmcjms.v5i1.17985.

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The medical laboratories are increasing significantly with striking challenges in ensuring praiseworthy public health service in Nepal. Quality medical laboratory service provision is important in order to enhance diagnostic value and save lives. Poverty, poor infrastructure, unskilled manpower and incompetency are major contributing factors leading to inefficient provision of health services in developing countries. Nepal has been increasing its network of clinical health laboratories in the Government and private sectors that are scattered in various geographical regions. The quality of service remains a growing concern even as medical diagnostic laboratories are undergoing the process of accreditation for quality services in line with WHO standards. But, still the status of clinical laboratory practice regarding quality assurance, skilled manpower, standard labs and cost effective quality service remains challenging due to different loopholes in policy making. The regulatory bodies and legal provisions seem to be in non-functional state. The malpractices in clinical laboratory medicine service are increasing exponentially. Therefore, this review draws attention towards unhealthy practices in clinical laboratory services and critically examines different factors affecting the healthy practice in medical laboratory science. Janaki Medical College Journal of Medical Sciences (2017) Vol. 5(1): 33-48

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Michienzi, Joseph, Rober Weisbein, Patrick B. Cahill, Lynn Doucette-Stamm, Tay Ho, Jim O'Connell, Jason Tsolas, James Benn, and Arnie Kana. "A Centralized Laboratory Maintenance Project." JALA: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Automation 8, no. 2 (April 2003): 58–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1535-5535-04-00254-0.

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Genome Therapeutics Corp. has implemented a unique maintenance approach for their GenomeVision™ Services 24-by-7 high-throughput Sequencing platform that ensures optimal performance and minimum downtime. A network-enabled software program automatically coordinates and tracks all maintenance tasks, and notifies responsible personnel by e-mail of their upcoming maintenance responsibilities. Production personnel perform all internal scheduled instrumentation maintenance, equipment vendors perform purchased service contracts, and a small in-house group responds to emergency situations. Personnel log completed maintenance tasks and request emergency service by means of a network-based interface that results in rapid response of appropriate in-house personnel or outside service organizations. The proprietary software program tracks all maintenance activities for each instrument, enabling upgrades to routine maintenance procedures, identification of opportunities for sequencing platform improvements, and more effective instrumentation purchasing decisions.

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Mourtzikou, Antonia, Marilena Stamouli, and Elena Athanasiadi. "Improvement of Clinical Laboratory Services through Quality." International Journal of Reliable and Quality E-Healthcare 2, no. 2 (April 2013): 38–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijrqeh.2013040103.

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Health care providers need test results that are relevant, accurate, and reliable for patient care. The term “quality control” is used to describe the set of procedures used to check that the results of laboratory tests are reliable for the intended clinical use. A laboratory might produce results that are considered unsatisfactory. While the cause for this might be immediately apparent, the identification of the underlying problem is neither always straightforward, nor easy because many factors can affect result quality. Internal quality control (IQC) and external quality assessment (EQA) are two distinct but complementary components of a laboratory quality improvement program. IQC ensures day-to-day laboratory consistency. EQA permits the identification of poor individual laboratory performance, as well as the detection of reagents, instruments and methods that produce unreliable or misleading results, by means of a retrospective analysis of data obtained by participating laboratories. Continuous participation in EQA schemes has been linked to improved laboratory performance.

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Roger, P., M. Colston, A. Gibbs, D. Ellis, and N. Clayton. "Reorganisation of laboratory services at AHVLA centres." Veterinary Record 169, no. 11 (September 9, 2011): 291. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/vr.d5696.

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Nugraha, N., D. S. Mulyati, I. Bachtiar, and C. Nursagita. "Measurement of quality services in the laboratory." IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering 830 (May 19, 2020): 042009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1757-899x/830/4/042009.

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Muula, A. S., and F. C. Maseko. "Medical Laboratory Services in Africa Deserve More." Clinical Infectious Diseases 42, no. 10 (May 15, 2006): 1503. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/503678.

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Scheel, Timothy, and Cathy Robinson. "Improving Laboratory Services in Resource-Limited Settings." Critical Values 6, no. 2 (April 1, 2013): 30–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/criticalvalues/6.2.30.

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Irven, J. H., M. E. Nilson, T. H. Judd, J. F. Patterson, and Y. Shibata. "Multi-media information services: a laboratory study." IEEE Communications Magazine 26, no. 6 (June 1988): 27–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/35.458.

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Gimbel, Ronald W., Louis Pangaro, and Galen Barbour. "Americaʼs “Undiscovered” Laboratory for Health Services Research." Medical Care 48, no. 8 (August 2010): 751–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/mlr.0b013e3181e35be8.

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Church, Deirdre L., and Paula Hall. "Centralization of a Regional Clinical Microbiology Service: The Calgary Experience." Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases 10, no. 6 (1999): 393–402. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/1999/372382.

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Diagnostic laboratory services in Alberta have been dramatically restructured over the past five years. In 1994, Alberta Health embarked on an aggressive laboratory restructuring that cut back approximately 30% of the overall monies previously paid to the laboratory service sector in Calgary. A unique service delivery model consolidated all institutional and community-based diagnostic testing in a company called Calgary Laboratory Services (CLS) in late 1996. CLS was formed by a public/private partnership between the Calgary Regional Health Care Authority (CRHA) and MDS-Kasper Laboratories. By virtue of its customer service base and scope of testing, CLS provides comprehensive regional laboratory services to the entire populace. Regional microbiology services within CLS have been successfully consolidated over the past three years into a centralized high volume laboratory (HVL). Because the HVL is not located in a hospital, rapid response laboratories (RRLs) are operated at each acute care site. Although the initial principle behind the proposed test menus for the RRLs was that only procedures requiring a clinical turnaround time of more than 2 h stay on-site, many other principles had to be used to develop and implement an efficient and clinically relevant RRL model for microbiology. From these guiding principles, a detailed assessment of the needs of each institution and extensive networking with user groups, the functions of the microbiology RRLs were established and a detailed implementation plan drawn up. The experience at CLS with regards to restructuring a regional microbiology service is described herein. A post-hoc analysis provides the pros and cons of directing and operating a regionalized microbiology service.

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Friedman, Bruce A. "The Total Laboratory Solution: A New Laboratory E-Business Model Based on a Vertical Laboratory Meta-Network." Clinical Chemistry 47, no. 8 (August 1, 2001): 1526–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/clinchem/47.8.1526.

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Abstract Major forces are now reshaping all businesses on a global basis, including the healthcare and clinical laboratory industries. One of the major forces at work is information technology (IT), which now provides the opportunity to create a new economic and business model for the clinical laboratory industry based on the creation of an integrated vertical meta-network, referred to here as the “total laboratory solution” (TLS). Participants at the most basic level of such a network would include a hospital-based laboratory, a reference laboratory, a laboratory information system/application service provider/laboratory portal vendor, an in vitro diagnostic manufacturer, and a pharmaceutical/biotechnology manufacturer. It is suggested that each of these participants would add value to the network primarily in its area of core competency. Subvariants of such a network have evolved over recent years, but a TLS comprising all or most of these participants does not exist at this time. Although the TLS, enabled by IT and closely akin to the various e-businesses that are now taking shape, offers many advantages from a theoretical perspective over the current laboratory business model, its success will depend largely on (a) market forces, (b) how the collaborative networks are organized and managed, and (c) whether the network can offer healthcare organizations higher quality testing services at lower cost. If the concept is successful, new demands will be placed on hospital-based laboratory professionals to shift the range of professional services that they offer toward clinical consulting, integration of laboratory information from multiple sources, and laboratory information management. These information management and integration tasks can only increase in complexity in the future as new genomic and proteomics testing modalities are developed and come on-line in clinical laboratories.

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Jones, Bruce A., Molly K. Walsh, and Stephen G. Ruby. "Hospital Nursing Satisfaction With Clinical Laboratory Services: A College of American Pathologists Q-Probes Study of 162 Institutions." Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine 130, no. 12 (December 1, 2006): 1756–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.5858/2006-130-1756-hnswcl.

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Abstract Context.—Monitoring customer satisfaction is an important and useful quality improvement tool and is required of most clinical laboratories in the United States. Objective.—To survey the level of nursing satisfaction with hospital clinical laboratory services. Design.—Participating laboratories provided information regarding laboratory demographics and practices. These laboratories then surveyed hospital nursing personnel regarding their level of satisfaction with defined aspects of laboratory service. Setting.—College of American Pathologists Q-Probes laboratory quality improvement study in 162 hospital laboratories. Main Outcome Measures.—Nursing overall satisfaction score (ranging from 1, not satisfied, to 5, very satisfied) and satisfaction scores for 13 specific aspects of clinical laboratory services. Results.—One hundred sixty-two institutions submitted data from a total of 7033 nursing surveys. The overall satisfaction score for all institutions ranged from 2.5 to 4.6. The median overall score for all participants was 3.9 (10th percentile, 3.2; 90th percentile, 4.2). Nursing personnel were most satisfied with the accuracy of test results, phlebotomy courtesy toward patients and nursing staff, and notification of abnormal results. They were least satisfied with stat test turnaround time, laboratory management responsiveness and accessibility, phlebotomy responsiveness to service requests, and routine test turnaround time. The most important aspect of laboratory service reported by nursing personnel was stat test turnaround time. Conclusions.—Most nursing personnel are satisfied with the clinical laboratory services that are provided to the patients in their care. Although test result accuracy is very highly regarded, there is room for improvement in several aspects of service, particularly in test turnaround time and laboratory management accessibility and responsiveness.

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Gardner, Robert, Lincoln Bryant, Mark Neubauer, Frank Wuerthwein, Judith Stephen, and Andrew Chien. "The Scalable Systems Laboratory: a Platform for Software Innovation for HEP." EPJ Web of Conferences 245 (2020): 05019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202024505019.

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The Scalable Systems Laboratory (SSL), part of the IRIS-HEP Software Institute, provides Institute participants and HEP software developers generally with a means to transition their R&D from conceptual toys to testbeds to production-scale prototypes. The SSL enables tooling, infrastructure, and services supporting innovation of novel analysis and data architectures, development of software elements and tool-chains, reproducible functional and scalability testing of service components, and foundational systems R&D for accelerated services developed by the Institute. The SSL is constructed with a core team having expertise in scale testing and deployment of services across a wide range of cyberinfrastructure. The core team embeds and partners with other areas in the Institute, and with LHC and other HEP development and operations teams as appropriate, to define investigations and required service deployment patterns. We describe the approach and experiences with early application deployments, including analysis platforms and intelligent data delivery systems.

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Kavosi, Sahra, Fatemeh Setoodehzadeh, Erfan Kharazmi, Mohammad Khammarnia, and Ramin Ravangard. "Propensity of the managers to outsource hospital services in Shiraz, Iran." South East Asia Journal of Public Health 4, no. 1 (February 2, 2015): 59–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/seajph.v4i1.21843.

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Contracting out of health services to the private sectors has been the subject of extensive debate and discussion among health personnel and policymakers. Outsourcing is now considered as a useful management tool for health care managers in the public sector. Outsourcing increases efficiency and service quality, reduces costs, focuses on core processes, improves skills, enhances the overall competitive advantages of the organization, and creates effective occupations in the private sector. The present study aimed to determine the present status of outsourcing hospital services (i.e. radiology, laboratory, nursing, and nutrition) to the private sectors and the propensity of the managers to outsourcing services in six hospitals affiliated to Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Iran. The study was conducted in six hospitals of Shiraz, Iran in 2012. The study population included all hospitals managers and the sample size was 24. The findings of the study revealed that nutrition, radiology and laboratory services were being outsourced by the hospitals to the private sectors. None of the hospitals outsourced the nursing services. Nutrition service was outsourced by five of the six hospitals, and radiology and laboratory services were outsourced by only one hospital. The highest propensity for outsourcing services among the studied hospital managers were nutrition (87%) followed by laboratory (73.9%), radiology (62.2%) and nursing services (43.3%). Hospital managers and health policy makers should pay more attention to the characteristics of services, besides considering the costs, while outsourcing the services. An effective national policy should be developed to engage the private sectors to improve public health by outsourcing health services.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/seajph.v4i1.21843 South East Asia Journal of Public Health Vol.4(1) 2014: 59-62

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Wright, James R., and Leland B. Baskin. "Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Support for the American Expeditionary Forces by the US Army Medical Corps During World War I." Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine 139, no. 9 (September 1, 2015): 1161–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.5858/arpa.2014-0528-hp.

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Context Historical research on pathology and laboratory medicine services in World War I has been limited. In the Spanish American War, these efforts were primarily focused on tropical diseases. World War I problems that could be addressed by pathology and laboratory medicine were strikingly different because of the new field of clinical pathology. Geographic differences, changing war tactics, and trench warfare created new issues. Objectives To describe the scope of pathology and laboratory medicine services in World War I and the value these services brought to the war effort. Methods Available primary and secondary sources related to American Expeditionary Forces' laboratory services were analyzed and contrasted with the British and German approaches. Results The United States entered the war in April 1917. Colonel Joseph Siler, MD, a career medical officer, was the director, and Colonel Louis B. Wilson, MD, head of pathology at the Mayo Clinic, was appointed assistant director of the US Army Medical Corps Division of Laboratories and Infectious Disease, based in Dijon, France. During the next year, they organized 300 efficient laboratories to support the American Expeditionary Forces. Autopsies were performed to better understand treatment of battlefield injuries, effects of chemical warfare agents, and the influenza pandemic; autopsies also generated teaching specimens for the US Army Medical Museum. Bacteriology services focused on communicable diseases. Laboratory testing for social diseases was very aggressive. Significant advances in blood transfusion techniques, which allowed brief blood storage, occurred during the war but were not primarily overseen by laboratory services. Conclusions Both Siler and Wilson received Distinguished Service Medals. Wilson's vision for military pathology services helped transform American civilian laboratory services in the 1920s.

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Chitechi, Kadima Victor, and Kelvin K. Omieno. "Effective Deployment of ICT’s in Management of Medical Laboratory Services in Kenya." International Journal of Innovative Science and Research Technology 3, no. 1 (August 2, 2020): 1395–403. http://dx.doi.org/10.38124/ijisrt20jan029.

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Automation of ICT services has been regarded as a key driver and enabler to better service delivery to most organizations today. Recent demand and access to modern technology have led to improved management of medical laboratory services in Kenya. In Kenya, Health services delivery is being transformed by advancements in technologies embraced thus act as the main support to better medical laboratory services. The paper discusses the state of computer use by medical laboratory facilities, the challenges and emerging technologies used. Various laboratory facilities have automated their services few have initiated the process for better client management, Some facilities are still facing challenges caused by manual systems, such systems need to be phased out to reduce any risks that might be caused by them. The advantage of Computerising a medical facility is that there will be improved growth and proper management of health services by facilities and services to customers. Previous research journals and conference proceedings have been used in this paper as main sources of literature as per the title. Methodological approaches used to get the data from the health facilities are highlighted and explained to show the state of adoption. Findings from previous and current studies indicate that medical facilities have been fully automated; however, the potential for its growth is enormous due to implementation challenges fueled by the rapid demand and penetration of various systems in health facilities

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Church, Deirdre L., Angelika Lichtenfeld, Sameer Elsayed, Susan Kuhn, and Daniel B. Gregson. "A Regional Centralized Microbiology Service in Calgary for the Rapid Diagnosis of Malaria." Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine 127, no. 6 (June 1, 2003): 687–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.5858/2003-127-687-arcmsi.

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Abstract Context.—A regional centralized laboratory service for the rapid diagnosis of malaria was implemented 3 years ago in May 1999 within the Division of Microbiology, Calgary Laboratory Services. Objective.—To describe the design and performance of this unique microbiology laboratory service. Design.—Blood specimens must arrive at the central laboratory within 2 hours of collection. Thin blood smears are read and reported from suspected acute cases within 1 hour of receipt, 24 hours per day, 7 days a week, by trained and experienced microbiology technologists. All positive malaria smears are reviewed by a medical microbiologist and confirmed by polymerase chain reaction at a reference laboratory. Setting.—Calgary Laboratory Services provides integrated laboratory services to the Calgary Health Region, an urban area of more than 1 million people. Main Outcome Measures.—Performance of the service has been continuously monitored by measuring preanalytic and analytic test turnaround times, test accuracy, clinical relevance, and the results of proficiency testing. Results.—More than 90% of blood specimens for malaria from community locations have consistently arrived within 2 hours of collection, and hospitals have reached this target within the past year. Although polymerase chain reaction was more sensitive at detecting the presence of malaria, the expert microscopists were as accurate at determining the type of Plasmodium infection. More than 95% of all positive smear results are consistently reported within 2 hours of receipt of a blood specimen. Conclusions.—Implementation of a regional centralized microbiology service has improved our ability to make a rapid and accurate diagnosis of malaria in this region.

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Harper, Kari K. "The National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program and Acoustical Testing Services Laboratory Accreditation Program." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 137, no. 4 (April 2015): 2216. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4920072.

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Kasım, İsmail. "Primary level laboratory services in family medicine practice." Turkiye Aile Hekimligi Dergisi 15, no. 1 (2011): 13–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.2399/tahd.11.013.

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Nauschuetz, William F. "Army Public Health Laboratory Services (Abstract No. 8)." Military Medicine 165, suppl_2 (July 1, 2000): 71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/milmed/165.suppl_2.71c.

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Masson, Alan J. "L6 Committee on Motion Picture Laboratory Services Technology." SMPTE Journal 110, no. 4 (April 2001): 208. http://dx.doi.org/10.5594/j12426.

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