Clinical Diagnostic Technology - The Total Testing Process, Volume 1: The Preanalytical Phase

Clinical Diagnostic Technology - The Total Testing Process, Volume 1: The Preanalytical Phase is the first volume in a three-volume series focusing on the three phases of laboratory testing - preanalytical (this Volume), analytical (Volume 2), and post analytical (Volume 3). With leading experts in their specialty areas as contributing authors, this series considers the entire testing process under one publication series.

This three-volume series is designed to provide the laboratory community with the latest information on advances and developments in the handling of specimens prior to testing, in workstation consolidation, and in new methodologies and analytical systems as well as the expansion of point-of-care testing and the explosion of information technology. It presents the challenges and innovations that should be expected as the technology and our healthcare delivery systems evolve.

Volume 1 provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of healthcare and its impact on diagnostic services, the evolution of technology and testing services, workflow analysis, critical pathways and specimen processing, preanalytical laboratory information systems, and preanalytical instrumentation.