McPherson R A
Department of Pathology, Medical College of Virginia/Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA.
Clin Lab Manage Rev. 1998 Sep-Oct;12(5):339-46.
The natural progression of automation in the clinical laboratory next will lead to robotic devices to perform many of the manual tasks still remaining. To date, most efforts of laboratory automation have been directed at the analytic phase. New targets for automation will be at the preanalytic and postanalytic phases where many of the bottlenecks in specimen flow now occur in highly repetitive manual tasks. Laboratory professionals will have a unique opportunity to incorporate new concepts of robotics in their facilities to improve error rates and to use massive laboratory databases to improve medical and public health services.
临床实验室自动化的自然发展趋势接下来将促使机器人设备执行许多仍需人工完成的任务。迄今为止，实验室自动化的大部分工作都集中在分析阶段。自动化的新目标将是在分析前和分析后阶段，目前标本流程中的许多瓶颈就出现在高度重复的人工任务中。实验室专业人员将有独特的机会在其设施中引入机器人技术的新概念，以降低错误率，并利用庞大的实验室数据库改善医疗和公共卫生服务。
