January 2014

Aberration of French Public Health Authorities policies for the cost-assessment of microbiological diagnosis in ophthalmology

Sensitive and specific laboratory tests adapted to ophthalmologic micro specimens are necessary for the clinical management of corneal ulcers (CU). The goal of this work is to analyze the correlation of diagnosis tests specificities with pricing policies for public laboratories. Human specimen procedures were extracted from the National Eye Center Laboratory registers in Paris, France with reimbursement values (pricing)...

Author(s): Pablo Goldschmidt, Lilia Merabet, Florence Daban, Laurence Batellier, Edgard Benveniste and Christine Chaumeil

January 2014

Risk analysis and management of non-conformities of the pre-analytical phase in a university testing laboratory of bacteriology

Due to the great deal of attention given to patient’s security, it is necessary to reduce non-conformities in pre-analytical phase, so the laboratories of medical bacteriology that can ensure the quality of examination results can contribute to diagnosis and prescription of treatment and patient safety. It is important that these laboratories collect and exploit statistics of the non-conformities rates which occur...

Author(s): Youssef El Hani, Hafsa Lamrani Alaoui, Najat Mahassini, Leila Radi, Mimoun Zouhdi and Abdelkarim Filali-Maltouf