Patients face a multitude of diseases, trauma, and related medical problems that are difficult to diagnose and have large treatment and diagnostic direct costs, including pulmonary embolism (PE), which has mortality rates as high as 10%. Advanced decision-making tools, such as nonparametric neural networks (NN), may improve diagnostic capabilities for these problematic medical conditions. The r...

Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza has generated many controversies in Australia around case definitions, laboratory diagnosis, case management, medical logistics and travel restrictions. Our experience as clinical advisers in the Victorian Department of Human Services Emergency Operations Centre suggests the following: Case definitions may change frequently, and will tend to become more clinically...

background: musculoskeletal diseases are quite common among healthcare professionals including medical laboratory technicians. this cross-sectional study aimed to identify the prevalence of musculoskeletal symptoms and ergonomic risk factors in indian medical laboratory technicians.   materials and methods: the study sample comprised of 130 male and female laboratory technicians from the indian...

The WHO classification of tumors of hematopoietic and lymphoid tissues is widely used as a standard for the diagnosis of hematological diseases. However, complicated algorithms developed through the integration of a large amount of laboratory information together with clinical characteristics are employed in most of the diagnostic criteria. Physicians usually have only a limited time to interpr...

Laboratory medicine is the single highest volume medical activity in healthcare and demand for laboratory testing is increasing disproportionately to medical activity. It has been estimated that $6.8 billion of medical care in the US involves unnecessary testing and procedures that do not improve patient care and may even harm the patient. Physicians face many challenges in accurately, efficien...