title: A different laboratory for the future.
abstract: The laboratory of the future will not be exclusively centrally placed in the hospital setting, and Laboratory Medicine will not be hospital-based to the extent it has been in the past. The requirement that Laboratory Medicine support necessary and beneficial clinical care remains. Unless laboratory personnel pay greater attention to all aspects of laboratory performance, including test ordering and reporting, the viability of Laboratory Medicine as a specialty may be jeopardized.
mesh_terms: D019411:Clinical Laboratory Techniques / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends*; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians' / Q000592:standards