Abstract:

Objective To improve clinical laboratory procedure management by biochemical and immunological pipeline determination system.Methods The use of pipeline determination mode replaced past traditional stand-alone mode. Results For more than 1 000 specimens/d, the pipeline determination mode had high efficiency-to-cost ratio. Compared with the traditional stand-alone mode, the advantage of pipeline determination mode can reduce the amount of bleeding from patients, reduce the number of pumping vessels, shorten samples' turn-around time (TAT), improve work efficiency, reduce the number of staff, reduce manual intervention, reduce error rate, reduce laboratory biological contamination, protect the health of operating staff and so on. Conclusions When treating specimens with excessive volume in clinical laboratories, pipeline determination mode has obvious advantages, which can significantly improve the efficiency of clinical laboratories.

Key words: Biochemical and immunological pipeline, Clinical laboratory, Procedure management, Efficiency-to-cost ratio