Laboratory Data and Patient Care

Economical Use of the Clinical Laboratory.- Rationalizing laboratories around techniques that cross departmental boundaries.- In search of laboratory excellence.- The economics of near patient testing.- The asking for redundant tests syndrome.- Modification of Physician Behavior at the Laboratory Interface.- Disease and diagnosis, a philosophical analysis.- Cost-effectiveness analysis of thyroid testing strategies.- Is it a dichotomy between the clinician and the pathologist in hematology?.- The physician, friend or foe? Education of physicians in laboratory medicine.- Clinical Decision Analysis and the Laboratory.- Decision analysis and the clinical laboratory.- Systematic nomenclature for measures of status-quantity relationship.- Expected value of clinical information: A revisionist view.- Some tricks and tools for intelligent use of multiple tests.- ROC curves: Assessment of clinical test accuracy.- Data Bases and Expert Systems.- Data base management and knowledge-based systems in clinical laboratory medicine.- Retrospective research on clinical laboratory test results using a hospital information system. A preliminary report.- Experience with expert systems in clinical chemistry.- Routine applications of the expert system PRO.M.D.- A system for medical reasoning (SMR) in the clinical laboratory.- Laboratory, patient and expert system as a triad in patient care.- A PC-workstation supporting interpretation of clinical chemistry laboratory data.- Data Presentation and Computer Display.- Quality control and telematics.- Disciplining time-related clinical and laboratory data.- Decision making in clinical monitoring: experts, expert systems and statistics.