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The primary objective of clinical laboratorians is to provide the highest possible quality of service to patients and those who care for patients. High-quality service encompasses accurate and precise analysis, timely, clear, and concise reporting, and delivery of the service to a location in a format most valuable to the user of the service. Quality has also come to include elements of efficiency, effectiveness, analysis of diagnostic utility, and decision support.1,2 Delivery of the service has come to mean that integration into a comprehensive electronic medical record (EMR) is to be expected.3,4 Although it is widely accepted that about 70% of the information used in the management of patients comes from the clinical and anatomical pathology laboratories,5 in one large medical center in which information flow is tracked, about 94% of requests to the EMR are for laboratory results.4 In addition, a critical quality feature is the transformation of laboratory data into information.2,5,6–8
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Cowan, D.F. (2005). Laboratory Informatics and the Laboratory Information System. In: Cowan, D.F. (eds) Informatics for the Clinical Laboratory. Health Informatics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-22629-3_1
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