Here’s a possibly worrying article.
“Lab in a Bag” is a “groundbreaking
mobile diagnostics service that will deliver laboratory standard test results
outside of hospital and allow patients to be diagnosed and treated at the point
of care”
In theory it sounds like a good thing, and *if* it works it
will clearly be essential in inmproving the patient experience and outcome.
In practice the entire “near
patient thing” hasn’t really impacted on my personal workload. Will this
one? I don’t know. But in all of this near patient testing I always remember
the works of a paediatric sister who was once telling me about a ward-based
bilurubin-measuring device. She would only allow the machine to be used if it
was being done “just for fun”. If the
result was to be used in patient treatment the sister refused to allow the
machine to be used; for that she insisted the hospital lab produce the result.
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