[Data processing in the clinical laboratory (author's transl)].

We will study successively:--the flow of data and biological material into the laboratory and the constitution of the primary message with its attendant areas of possible error generation;--the organization of this data, storage techniques, and methods of information transfer;--common general principles of laboratory organization, constraints to organization inherent in the nature of a given laboratory, and the system of task priority according to the type of laboratory, cases seen and tests required;--perspectives in the development in the handling of results of laboratory tests and diagnostic determinations are briefly discussed.