Publication: Variation in Laboratory Reports: Causes other than Laboratory Error
Date
2022
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Journal ISSN
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Publisher
Nepal Medical Association
Abstract
Abstract:
When a sample of an individual is measured at different times at the same or different clinical laboratory, the results are always different, even the state of health of an individual is the same. This disparity in the results from clinical laboratories might confuse diagnosing, treating, and monitoring disease. Patients and healthcare professionals usually interpret these differences as laboratory errors. However, this might not always be the case, because laboratory test results are highly variable and are neither consistent nor comparable due to several reasons other than laboratory error, namely preanalytical variation, biological variation, and analytical variation.
Description
Santosh Pradhan
Department of Biochemistry, Samyak Diagnostic Pvt. Ltd, Lalitpur, Nepal
https://orcid.org/
Keyoor Gautam
Department of Pathology, Samyak Diagnostic Pvt. Ltd, Lalitpur, Nepal
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3273-8101
Vivek Pant
Department of Biochemistry, Samyak Diagnostic Pvt. Ltd, Lalitpur, Nepal
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3967-1851
Keywords
diagnosis, laboratory, report