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Strategies to shorten turnaround time in outpatient laboratory

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Turnaround time (TAT) is one of the most important indicators of laboratory quality. For the outpatient routine chemistry tests whose results are checked by clinicians on the same day, we… Click to show full abstract

Turnaround time (TAT) is one of the most important indicators of laboratory quality. For the outpatient routine chemistry tests whose results are checked by clinicians on the same day, we set a quality goal that >90% of these samples should be reported within 60 min. As more than 20% of the samples failed to achieve this goal in 2020, we introduced an additional autoanalyzer and a real‐time monitoring system to improve this rate.

Keywords: laboratory; shorten turnaround; time; strategies shorten; turnaround time; time outpatient

Journal Title: Journal of Clinical Laboratory Analysis
Year Published: 2022

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