Abstract

CESPEDES QUEVEDO, María Cristina et al. Impact of the automation of the analytic assays in the oncological services of the Clinical Laboratory. MEDISAN [online]. 2012, vol.16, n.7, pp.1075-1082. ISSN 1029-3019.

A longitudinal and prospective investigation was designed to evaluate the effectiveness of the technology Elimat in the Clinical Laboratory of "Conrado Benítez" Teaching Oncological Hospital from Santiago de Cuba, during the biennium 2010-2011, by comparing the precision and the costs through the use of 8 chemical determinations with Elitrol I and II samples as quality controllers, processed by automatic and manual methods. In the series, indicators such as: T test for equality of means, coefficients of routine and ideal variation, and variance index; the approaches: evaluation scale and significance level a <0.05; as well as the standards: coefficient of ideal variation of each determination and mean values of controllers were considered. An expense of $2 057 pesos more was obtained in the 100 samples manually processed, the global precision was evaluated as good in both methods, the accuracy of the manual technique was evaluated of excellent and that of the automated procedure, was good too, with significant differences between the resulting means of this last one and those of the used controllers. The autoanalizer Elimat produced a positive impact economically and socially; however, as for the quality it presented the same precision and lower accuracy than the manual procedure.

Keywords : impacto de la automatización; autoanalizador Elimat; laboratorio clínico; servicios oncológicos; automation impact; Elimat autoanalizer; clinical laboratory; oncological services..

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