Means to facilitate physician acceptance and use of rapid test results.
Rapid testing methods can have a positive impact on patient care and help ease the mounting economical pressures facing clinical microbiology laboratories. Rapid test reporting, the validation of rapid test procedures and results, and physician acceptance and use of these tests are among the 10 categorical measures outlined to help laboratories optimize productivity, efficiency, and economic and patient-care impact.
D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001431:Bacteriological Techniques / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D010820:Physicians; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D013997:Time Factors; D014481:United States