title: [Codes and names of clinical laboratory tests and shared interlaboratory databases].
abstract: Physicians need to combine and compare laboratory data for one patient results from many laboratories and hospital officers and policy makers also need to merge them form the view point of public health. As there are many different codes used by different sources for the same test, it is impossible to transmit results using electronic massage standards. This problem would not exist if all laboratories used the same universal set of test identifiers. Public use sets of codes and names of clinical laboratory tests are available. We have to select and use them properly. We proposed a project to have a systematizing guideline for laboratory systems not for rationalization of laboratory works but for sharing database to assess appropriate laboratory use.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Informatics and Decision Sciences, Yamaguchi University Hospital, Ube.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Inoue
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Nakamura
mesh_terms: D002984:Clinical Laboratory Information Systems; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D007256:Information Systems; D008490:Medical Informatics