Global health: Integrating national laboratory health systems and services in resource-limited settings
Laboratory systems worldwide are challenged not only by the need to compete for scarce resources with other sections of national health care programmes, but also with the lack of understanding of the critical role that laboratories play in the accurate diagnosis and monitoring of patients suffering...
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| author | Linda M. Parsons Akos Somoskovi Evan Lee Chinnambedu N. Paramasivan Miriam Schneidman Deborah Birx Giorgio Roscigno John N. Nkengasong |
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| description | Laboratory systems worldwide are challenged not only by the need to compete for scarce resources with other sections of national health care programmes, but also with the lack of understanding of the critical role that laboratories play in the accurate diagnosis and monitoring of patients suffering from high-burdens of disease. An effective approach to establishing cost-effective laboratory systems that provide rapid and accurate test results for optimal impact on patient care is to move away from disease-specific programmes and establish integrated laboratory services. An integrated laboratory network provides all primary diagnostic services needed for care and treatment without requiring patients to go to different laboratory facilities for specific tests. Such a network focuses on providing quality-assured basic laboratory testing through the use of common specimen collection, reporting and diagnostic platforms that can be used across diseases. An integrated laboratory system also provides specimen transport to specialised laboratories and an environment conducive to the introduction and use of new and more complex technologies that would benefit the patient population and public health systems as a whole. As such, this article described various strategies for, and practical examples of, the successful integration of laboratory services. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a30e13c628f14f44a0495c2554a84a5c2022-12-22T01:10:55ZengAOSISAfrican Journal of Laboratory Medicine2225-20022225-20102012-06-0111e1e510.4102/ajlm.v1i1.1115Global health: Integrating national laboratory health systems and services in resource-limited settingsLinda M. Parsons0Akos Somoskovi1Evan Lee2Chinnambedu N. Paramasivan3Miriam Schneidman4Deborah Birx5Giorgio Roscigno6John N. Nkengasong7Global AIDS Program, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, AtlantaFoundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, GenevaFoundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, GenevaFoundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, GenevaThe World Bank, Washington, DCGlobal AIDS Program, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, AtlantaFoundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, GenevaGlobal AIDS Program, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, AtlantaLaboratory systems worldwide are challenged not only by the need to compete for scarce resources with other sections of national health care programmes, but also with the lack of understanding of the critical role that laboratories play in the accurate diagnosis and monitoring of patients suffering from high-burdens of disease. An effective approach to establishing cost-effective laboratory systems that provide rapid and accurate test results for optimal impact on patient care is to move away from disease-specific programmes and establish integrated laboratory services. An integrated laboratory network provides all primary diagnostic services needed for care and treatment without requiring patients to go to different laboratory facilities for specific tests. Such a network focuses on providing quality-assured basic laboratory testing through the use of common specimen collection, reporting and diagnostic platforms that can be used across diseases. An integrated laboratory system also provides specimen transport to specialised laboratories and an environment conducive to the introduction and use of new and more complex technologies that would benefit the patient population and public health systems as a whole. As such, this article described various strategies for, and practical examples of, the successful integration of laboratory services.https://ajlmonline.org/index.php/ajlm/article/view/11diagnosishealth system strengtheninginfectious diseasesnational laboratory systemspublic health |
| spellingShingle | Linda M. Parsons Akos Somoskovi Evan Lee Chinnambedu N. Paramasivan Miriam Schneidman Deborah Birx Giorgio Roscigno John N. Nkengasong Global health: Integrating national laboratory health systems and services in resource-limited settings African Journal of Laboratory Medicine diagnosis health system strengthening infectious diseases national laboratory systems public health |
| title | Global health: Integrating national laboratory health systems and services in resource-limited settings |
| title_full | Global health: Integrating national laboratory health systems and services in resource-limited settings |
| title_fullStr | Global health: Integrating national laboratory health systems and services in resource-limited settings |
| title_full_unstemmed | Global health: Integrating national laboratory health systems and services in resource-limited settings |
| title_short | Global health: Integrating national laboratory health systems and services in resource-limited settings |
| title_sort | global health integrating national laboratory health systems and services in resource limited settings |
| topic | diagnosis health system strengthening infectious diseases national laboratory systems public health |
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