062 - Appropriateness and safety in laboratory medicine
Autor(s): W.S.A. Smellie
Issue: RIMeL - IJLaM, Vol. 2, N. 3-S1, 2006 (MAF Servizi srl ed.)
Page(s): 62-64
Pathology tests are not optimally used. Referring back to an editorial he had written in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) in 1984, Professor George Lundberg then President of the American Medical Association asked the question in a further 1998 JAMA editorial: ….. have we had advances in the field of best practice (in Pathology)? “Sadly, the answer in 1998 is that we still don’t know, not even in a research mode. We not only haven’t gotten to first base, we haven’t even picked up our bat.”...