Abstract
The organization of an immunoassay section developed in 1987 capable to automatically process 17 different RIA and EI A tests is described. The section is equipped with a Kemtek 1000 Sample Processor, a spectrophotometer, a 16 wells NE 1600 gamma counter, a IBM PC/XT running commercial software for data reduction and PC-SYS-LAB, a home made program, which interlinks the section with the LIS. After the entry of the patients and of the required tests, worklists relative to the daily workload are transferred to a floppy-disk and a hard copy is simultaneously printed for reference. The samples are dispensed by Kemtek 1000 according to the worklist and, after the end of the procedure, radioactivity or absorbance measurements are transferred over a RS-232 interface to the IBM PC. After the calculation of the doses, PC-SYSLAB links the doses to the identification number of the patients and then transfers these to LDM/SYSLAB. Medical validation is helped by the printing of a complete table of results. An archive relative to the thyroid panel (containing today about 1,200 patients) can be searched for the presence of known patients. Every year more than 50,000 endocrinological tests have been reported without any manual entry and transcription of data by 2 medical technologists and 1 laboratory physician.
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