[Rapid diagnosis for infectious diseases: the respective roles of physician and medical technologist].
The outcome of infectious disease greatly depends on the rapidity of making a definite diagnosis. For this, smooth and tight cooperation between physician and laboratory where medical technologists are working will become to the key. Rapid diagnosis for infectious diseases can contribute on the patient care, however the laboratory has a self-limitation. That is a seesaw phenomenon; rapidity vs accuracy, rapidity vs sensitivity, rapidity vs easygoing, rapidity vs carefulness, etc. From the laboratory aspect, medical technologists should function as the effective access-point in the evidence-based medicine (EBM), and should have a reasonable balance in judging seesaw phenomena, and should be keeping up their knowledge and technical skill.
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Department of Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan.
D006801:Humans; D007239:Infections / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013677:Medical Laboratory Science; D010819:Physician's Role; D012380:Role