Effective Demand (Utilization) of Laboratory Services of a Tertiary Care Hospital
Journal Title: Scholars Journal of Applied Medical Sciences - Year 2015, Vol 3, Issue 6
Abstract
The increasing costs of medical care mandate that those in Clinical laboratories and their Clinical colleagues be concerned as well with effective utilization of Laboratory services in medical care. Utilization of Laboratory services has increased during the last several decades in many health care jurisdictions. Utilization of services or actual courage is expressed as the proportion of people in need of a service who actually receive it in a given period, usually a year. A. retrospective study for a period of five years. B. prospective study for a period of one year was carried out. Methods included were 1. Observational study. 2. Records. The results were retrospective analysis to study the utilization of laboratory services at SKIMS revealed that a total of 7.36305 investigations were ordered for the period of study. There was a progressive increase in quantum of tests ordered per year for the period of study. Utilization per bed per day for the entire period worked out to be 0.886.Utilization of laboratory investigations per bed per year, viz – a viz various medical and surgical revealed that critical care areas ordered highest number of tests per bed per day having a utilization of 26.58 followed by Nephrology(4.46) and Emergency medicine (4.14).Utilization of laboratory services viz-a-viz type of tests ordered that Arterial Blood Gas ranked highest 138/bed/year followed by electrolytes 112/bed/year. Utilization was lowest for amylase 5.72/bed/year. Keywords: Laboratory services, Investigations, Utilization Cardiovascular disease
Authors and Affiliations
Malik Aubid, G J Qadri, Mushtaq A Siddiqui, Farooq A Jan, Shahnawaz Hamid
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