TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - Preface
A2  - Laposata, Michael
PY  - 2014
T2  - Laboratory Medicine: The Diagnosis of Disease in the Clinical Laboratory
AB  - In  the  early  1990s  when  I  was  at  the  Massachusetts  General  Hospital  as  director  of  clinical  laboratories,  I  was  invited  by  Ramzi  Cotran  to  join  him  and  Stan  Robbins  at  the  Brigham  and  Women's  Hospital  for  a  meeting.  In  that  meeting,  they  indicated  to  me  that  the  Robbins  Pathologic  Basis  of  Disease,  primarily  an  anatomic  pathology  book,  would  greatly  benefit  from  a  parallel  book  in  clinical  pathology  (laboratory  medicine).  At  that  time,  areas  such  as  coagulation  and  toxicology  were  expanding  rapidly  with  new  disorders  and  new  tests  to  diagnose  them.  Because  there  was  little  anatomic  pathology  in  these  fields,  the  discussions  of  these  major  areas  of  diagnostic  medicine  in  the  Robbins  book  were  limited.  In  addition,  as  the  test  menu  in  the  clinical  laboratory  was  growing  in  complexity  and  cost,  many  important  clinical  laboratory  tests  for  common  disorders,  such  as  the  troponin  test  for  myocardial  infarction,  were  also  discussed  only  briefly  in  the  Robbins  book.  Both  Robbins  and  Cotran  understood  that  a  discussion  regarding  the  threshold  for  diagnosis  of  myocardial  infarction,  as  troponin  testing  rapidly  evolved  and  improved,  was  necessary  to  fully  discuss  the  topic.  There  were  many  twists  and  turns  from  that  meeting  about  20  years  ago  to  the  development  of  this  second  edition  of  Laboratory  Medicine:  The  Diagnosis  of  Disease  in  the  Clinical  Laboratory  in  the  prestigious  Lange  series  by  McGraw-Hill.  With  this  second  edition,  I  believe  we  truly  have  a  book  that  is  essential  for  education  of  medical  students  and  residents  studying  clinical  pathology,  and  importantly,  for  practitioners  in  a  clinical  setting.  By  selecting  the  correct  tests  and  interpreting  the  results  correctly,  physicians  using  this  book  should  be  able  to  optimize  patient  outcomes  and  reduce  the  cost  to  achieve  a  diagnosis.  
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PB  - McGraw-Hill Education
CY  - New York, NY
Y2  - 2024/04/19
UR  - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1104501679
ER  -