The Role of Laboratory Procedures in The Quality of Hospital Care |Biomedgrid

Each diagnostic investigation (biochemical and laboratory procedures) have a set of characteristics that provide the knowledge to make decisions about the patient status (with or without dieses under investigation). Characteristics of biochemical and laboratory procedures provide physician with knowledge about: the sensitivity of biochemical and laboratory procedures determines the probability that result of the lab investigations will be abnormal (no healthy patient), And, specificity of biochemical and laboratory procedures determines, the probability that the result will be normal ( the patient without dieses) [1]. Specialist doctor should depend metrics of biochemical and laboratory procedures characteristics such as sensitivity and specificity to determine the quality of a laboratory procedures for a specific disorder. The sensitivity of diagnostic laboratory test is the probability that a patient with disorder has a positive results of diagnostic laboratory test. If all patients with a specific disorder have a positive test (i.e., healthy patient have negative results), the test sensitivity is 100%.