title: [Survey for the guideline JSLM 2009 users].
abstract: The guideline committee in the Japanese Society of Laboratory Medicine sent approximate 3,400 books of the guideline JSLM 2009 to the institutions related to our society and the survey was performed to obtain useful opinions from the users and to reflect them to the next version. Forty seven answers (1.4%) were recovered by the end of April 2010. In the overall impressions, 13 users evaluated the guideline JSLM 2009 as excellent, 29 as fair, 3 as average and 2 as the other. The numbers of the users evaluating the most useful section were 24 for the "approaches by laboratory test results" section, 19 for the "symptom" session, 22 for the "disease" session and 28 for the "evaluation of the laboratory test results" section. The opinions were mostly supportive, but some constructive opinions were also obtained such that the foci of some parts were obscure, that the description should have been more conclusive, that their contents were incomplete, that this guideline was rather the textbook than the guideline, and that the committee should provide this guideline in the DVD format including movies, figures or animations. From the survey, it was suggested that the guideline users were more interested in the contents specific to laboratory tests than in the symptoms or the diseases. The committee should reflect these opinions to the next version.
authors.affiliation: Department of Laboratory Medicine, Iwate Medical University School of Medicine, Morioka 020-8505, Japan. aksuwabe@iwate-med.ac.jp
authors.forename: Akira
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Suwabe
mesh_terms: D019411:Clinical Laboratory Techniques / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013997:Time Factors