Care of the critically ill is a team effort where doctors and nurses heavily depend on laboratory measurements. The mortality rate of such patients is between 30 to 40%. The authors are, appropriately, an anaesthetist, a medical microbiologist and a clinical scientist, all of whom are key specialists that would make up the team. Their stated goal is to enable laboratory personnel to understand ...

Technologic innovations have substantially improved the productivity of clinical laboratories, but the services provided by clinical laboratories are increasingly becoming commoditized. We reflect on how current developments may affect the future of laboratory medicine and how to deal with these changes. We argue that to be prepared for the future, clinical laboratories should enhance efficienc...

Recent advances in medicine and technology, combined with an ever-growing workload, have increased the demand for skilled professionals in laboratory medicine. The specific need for trained physicians and scientists raises important questions about the content of training programs and about the ideal characteristics of the human products of the training programs. Excellent recent publications i...

Over the last 5 decades, laboratory medicine has witnessed a remarkable wave of innovations that transformed the field from a peripheral to a central player in healthcare delivery. These advances enabled the introduction and performance of new tests on a large scale, some in a decentralized setting, in an accurate and a precise manner, thus leading to better diagnosis, more accurate prediction ...