Principles of Clinical Laboratory Utilization and Consultation. Brenta G. Davis, Diana Mass, and Michael L. Bishop. Philadelphia, PA: WB Saunders, 1999, 709 pp., $75.00. ISBN 0-7216-6934-4.

摘要

This well-written 69-chapter book discusses laboratory tests from the organ system and disorder approach. This is not a book on how to do laboratory tests. Instead, the book enables the reader to first see how tests should be utilized from the laboratory perspective, and then turns the perspective around so that the reader sees how proper use of laboratory tests aids in the diagnosis and treatment of specific clinical disorders.The book is divided into two parts. Part I gives a very thoughtful discussion of clinical utilization issues and the emerging role of the clinical laboratory scientist …