Conn R B
Hum Pathol. 1980 Sep;11(5):407-12. doi: 10.1016/s0046-8177(80)80047-5.
The clinical laboratory is an essential component in the medical care system, and laboratory information is necessary in many clinical decisions. There is no inherent conceptual reason why laboratory information should be used any differently in the decision making process from the information collected by the physician himself, but there are logistic and economic factors that prevent this. The laboratory can be considered an information system, and the performance of the entire system depends upon the effectiveness of each of the sequential steps in the information generating process. Optimization of laboratory utilization requires the identification of explicit criteria regarding when laboratory tests should be used and the development of methods to insure that the resulting data are utilized properly.
临床实验室是医疗保健系统的重要组成部分，实验室信息在许多临床决策中都是必需的。从概念上讲，没有内在原因说明实验室信息在决策过程中的使用方式应与医生自己收集的信息有所不同，但存在后勤和经济因素阻碍了这一点。实验室可被视为一个信息系统，整个系统的性能取决于信息生成过程中每个连续步骤的有效性。优化实验室利用需要确定关于何时应使用实验室检测的明确标准，并开发确保所产生的数据得到正确利用的方法。
