It was the early 1990s, and hospitals were racing to automate. New "Biochemistry Robots" could run hundreds of blood samples an hour. Doctors were thrilled—they could order dozens of tests with one click.
But a strange problem emerged. Doctors started complaining that the lab was "wrong." A patient would come in with clear symptoms of a heart attack, but the new, high-tech Troponin test (a heart marker) came back normal. The doctors trusted the machine and sent the patient home. Some of those patients had heart attacks and died shortly after. The lab directors were blamed for faulty equipment. It was the early 1990s, and hospitals were
Approfondimento sulle fasi pre-analitica, analitica e post-analitica, con particolare attenzione alla variabilità della misura e ai traguardi analitici. But a strange problem emerged
Following structured paths—often using Bayes' theorem and likelihood ratios—to determine the probability of disease. Key Pillars of the Discipline Some of those patients had heart attacks and
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