Pretlow Lester, Johnson Shamala, Russell Barbara, Evans Bridget
Department of Medical Laboratory, Imaging and Radiologic Sciences, College of Allied Health Sciences, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, GA 30912, USA.
Clin Lab Sci. 2013 Summer;26(3):153-7.
Hemolyzed specimens continue to cost the laboratory time and money. However, the core laboratory at Georgia Regents Health System, Inc. has instituted a novel approach to managing this problem. The purpose of this study was to determine whether the laboratory's new approach had a significant impact on the turn-around time (TAT) and cost of processing hemolyzed and non-hemolyzed specimens in the laboratory. The investigators queried the laboratory information systems for hemolyzed and non-hemolyzed specimens categorized as routine or STAT from the core laboratory and calculated statistical differences between the groups with respect to TAT and cost.The investigators found a statistically significant difference in the time it takes to process STAT hemolyzed specimens versus non-hemolyzed specimens with the new approach. Because of the new approach, hemolyzed specimens were actually processed as fast as, or faster than non-hemolyzed specimens in the core laboratory.
溶血样本持续耗费实验室的时间和金钱。然而，佐治亚州医科大学健康系统公司的核心实验室已采用一种新方法来解决这个问题。本研究的目的是确定实验室的新方法是否对实验室处理溶血和非溶血样本的周转时间（TAT）及成本产生显著影响。研究人员查询了核心实验室中归类为常规或急诊的溶血和非溶血样本的实验室信息系统，并计算了两组在TAT和成本方面的统计差异。研究人员发现，采用新方法后，处理急诊溶血样本与非溶血样本所需的时间存在统计学上的显著差异。由于采用了新方法，在核心实验室中，溶血样本实际上处理得与非溶血样本一样快，甚至更快。
Zotero 插件