Nov 2, 2009 | Instruments & Equipment, Laboratory News, Laboratory Pathology
Pre-analytical products, automated systems, and Lean Six Sigma combined to improve outcomes In today’s era of automation and Lean Six Sigma processes in laboratory medicine, the manual urinalysis test may be ready for a major makeover. Such a development would be welcome because, in the typical American hospital, the clinical laboratory performs an average of 120 urinalyses per day. Some clinical laboratory managers consider it counterintuitive that—during a period of automation and...
