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The Use of Laboratory Test Results in Health Care Management

The Use of Laboratory Test Results in Health Care Management

M. Nanda Prematilleke
Copyright: © 2010 |Pages: 13
ISBN13: 9781605662664|ISBN10: 1605662666|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781616922689|EISBN13: 9781605662671
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-266-4.ch014
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Prematilleke, M. Nanda. "The Use of Laboratory Test Results in Health Care Management." Biomedical Knowledge Management: Infrastructures and Processes for E-Health Systems, edited by Wayne Pease, et al., IGI Global, 2010, pp. 204-216. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-266-4.ch014

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Prematilleke, M. N. (2010). The Use of Laboratory Test Results in Health Care Management. In W. Pease, M. Cooper, & R. Gururajan (Eds.), Biomedical Knowledge Management: Infrastructures and Processes for E-Health Systems (pp. 204-216). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-266-4.ch014

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Prematilleke, M. Nanda. "The Use of Laboratory Test Results in Health Care Management." In Biomedical Knowledge Management: Infrastructures and Processes for E-Health Systems, edited by Wayne Pease, Malcolm Cooper, and Raj Gururajan, 204-216. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2010. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-266-4.ch014

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Abstract

Laboratory test results used in health care management can be qualitative or quantitative. These cover several disciplines, the four major disciplines being histopathology, haematology, medical microbiology and chemical pathology. Histopathology and medical microbiology are mainly qualitative assessments, while chemical pathology is predominantly based on quantitative analysis of chemical constituents in blood or other body fluids. Haematology encompasses both quantitative and qualitative assessments, the blood cell parameters being quantitative while blood film reports and bone marrow reports are qualitative. The application of such results to healthcare management includes screening for disease as well as in making a diagnosis and for monitoring response to treatment of a known disease. This necessitates the availability of normal ranges to compare with and decide whether the results are normal or not. Normal means the individual is in a state of good health and a deviation from normal is interpreted as implying ill-health. Data used in these tests are taken from previous studies of Sri Lankan Adults carried out from May 2005 to July 2006.

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