Laboratory Medicine: Extended Roles in Healthcare Delivery
A special issue of Diagnostics (ISSN 2075-4418). This special issue belongs to the section "Clinical Laboratory Medicine".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2024 | Viewed by 1291
Special Issue Editor
2. Black Country Pathology Services, The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, Wolverhampton WV10 0QP, UK
Interests: laboratory healthcare; pre-analytics; post-analytics; endocrinology; lipids; metabolic disease
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Dear Colleagues,
Laboratory Medicine is well recognized as pivotal to the diagnosis, exclusion and management of most disease processes. Laboratory medicine, however, should be much more than just a factory that produces precise, accurate quality-assured results. We, therefore, have selected reviews on the extended roles of laboratory medicine in healthcare delivery, machine learning, anaemia in pregnancy, point of care testing (POCT) in the community, and the concept of algorithm-based “intelligent testing”.
Data analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence appear to possess the potential to transform laboratory medicine practice, but is this a realistic goal? Anaemia in pregnancy is multifactorial in origin and associated with increased maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality. Does the laboratory have a meaningful role in uncovering the underlying cause, which is crucial to its management? Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is increasing in prevalence, in association with cardiovascular disease and end-stage renal disease. Does POCT provide access to difficult-to-engage populations to enable the optimization of CKD management and reduce or halt the progression of comorbidity and mortality? Liver function tests (liver profiles), although sensitive for the presence of liver disease, are non-specific. Is it possible for the laboratory to produce more meaningful data other than numbers with units attached? The selected reviews will update us on laboratory medicine and its transition into the next decade.
Prof. Dr. Rousseau Gama
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- anaemia
- pregnancy
- point of care
- nearer patient tesing
- chronic kidney disease (CKD)
- machine learning
- liver disease
- liver function tests
