Ives E R
Health Lab Sci. 1975 Jul;12(3):195-200.
Directors of State and Territorial Public-Health Laboratories have realized for many years that they needed to join together to compare and appraise their operations, identify common problems, and take steps leading to improvement of services provided. Before these objectives could be accomplished, a data base, built from contributions by all the laboratories, was necessary. This article is intended to give a general historical overview of the efforts at data collection and the establishment of a solid data base covering workload and activities of the laboratories which form the Association of State and Territorial Public Health Laboratories. The Consolidated Annual Report (CAR) on State and Territorial Public Health Laboratories--Fiscal Year 1973 is the 10th consecutive report of data concerning these laboratories. The annual issues of the CAR have served as a foundation from which additional documents covering position classification and pay, guide class job specifications, laboratory training activities, and relative values assigned to laboratory tests in measuring costs and workload have evolved over the past decade. Collectively, these documents provide the solid data base available today.
多年来，州和地区公共卫生实验室的负责人已经意识到，他们需要联合起来，比较和评估各自的运作情况，找出共同问题，并采取措施改进所提供的服务。在实现这些目标之前，有必要建立一个基于所有实验室提供的数据的数据库。本文旨在对数据收集工作以及建立一个涵盖构成州和地区公共卫生实验室协会的各实验室工作量和活动的坚实数据库的努力进行总体历史概述。《1973财政年度州和地区公共卫生实验室综合年度报告》（CAR）是关于这些实验室数据的连续第10份报告。在过去十年中，CAR的年度版本已成为基础，在此基础上又演变出了其他文件，涵盖职位分类与薪酬、指导类工作规范、实验室培训活动以及在衡量成本和工作量时赋予实验室检测的相对价值。总体而言，这些文件构成了如今可用的坚实数据库。
