Karen Lusky
March 2015—Before Lahey Hospital and Medical Center’s clinical laboratory brought an automated urine sediment analyzer on board last November, it had been doing manual microscopy on positive dipstick specimens only. A review of that practice uncovered problems with quality, including patient misdiagnosis, says Tim Skelton, MD, PhD, medical director of the core laboratory and laboratory informatics at the tertiary care medical center in Burlington, Mass.
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