title: Role of laboratory diagnostic medical biochemistry services -analysis of requirements for the laboratory test in the laboratory of primary health care center.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Laboratory diagnosis of medical biochemistry activity plays a significant role in the Primary Health Care Center (PHCC), dominated by Family medicine and diagnostic services. Medical biochemical diagnosis has a visible place at all levels of health care, which shows the number of requests for laboratory diagnosis, number and type of required laboratory tests.
  
  
  METHODS
  The study included 1000 requests for laboratory tests at the PHCC in Gracanica in primary health care units. We made an analysis of the most common laboratory tests in the requests by doctors from primary health care based on requests for laboratory diagnosis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The requests of primary health care units in PHCC laboratory tests are required at all levels of service: urine, WBC, SE, glucose, total bilirubin, ALT, AST, AF, CK, cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, triglycerides, creatinine, urea, uric acid, CRP, fibrinogen, calcium and phosphorus. The following requirements are the most common laboratory tests with 94% representation: urine, WBC, glucose, cholesterol, triglycerides, aminotransferases, creatinine, and urea. In 1000 requires was required total of 5333 laboratory tests. Test requirements of a general practice make 44, 1%; FM doctors account for 40% and the requirements of other specialists (pediatricians, gynecologists and specialists of occupational medicine) are 15, 3%. The doctors in family practice most often required: glucose, urine, WBC, SE, TGL., Chol., ALT, AST, creatinine and urea. General practitioners are demanding more cholesterol and triglycerides, a family medicine doctors are demanding lower cholesterol and triglycerides and higher CRP, fibrinogen, total bilirubin, ALT, AST, and other specialists the most demanded urine and WBC.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Laboratory diagnosis is a common diagnosis, which shows the representation of required number and type of laboratory tests. In requirements of PHC units in PHCC laboratory tests are required at all levels of service: urine, WBC, SE, glucose, bilirubin, ALT, AST, AF, CK, cholesterol, HDLchol., triglycerides, creatinine, urea, uric acid, CRP, fibrinogen, calcium and phosphorus. The following requirements are the most common laboratory tests at the primary level: urine, WBC, glucose, cholesterol, urea, and found the secondary level of triglycerides, index levels and did not clear the number of searches required by the standards and norms of PHC.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina. tema.in@bih.net.ba
authors.forename: Lejla
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zunic
authors.forename: Armin
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Skrbo
authors.forename: Adlija
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Causevic
authors.forename: Besim
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Prnjavorac
authors.forename: Zekerijah
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Sabanovic
authors.forename: Haris
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Pandza
authors.forename: Izet
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Masic
mesh_terms: D000554:Ambulatory Care Facilities; D017522:Bosnia and Herzegovina; D019411:Clinical Laboratory Techniques / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D011320:Primary Health Care