title: The role of esoteric reference laboratory as a partner for growth.
abstract: Partnering with a reference lab can actually help grow a referring lab's own business. The reference lab provides a hospital's physicians with access to unique tests and clinical information and broadens the scope and depth of the referring lab's menu. As medicine moves toward prescribed treatments based on a patient's individual genotype or phenotype, the reference lab will play an even bigger role in helping the hospital to educate physicians and their patients to the most efficient testing strategies consistent with good patient management.
authors.affiliation: Specialty Laboratories in Santa Monica, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Ronald A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Blum
authors.forename: Linda
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Dearing
mesh_terms: D019411:Clinical Laboratory Techniques; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D007753:Laboratories / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012016:Reference Values; D014481:United States