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Benefits Derived from Full Laboratory Automation in Microbiology: a Tale of Four Laboratories

Automation in clinical microbiology is starting to become more commonplace and reportedly offers several advantages over the manual laboratory. Most studies have reported on the rapid turnaround times for culture results, including times for identification of pathogens and their respective antimicro...

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Autores principales: Culbreath, Karissa, Piwonka, Heather, Korver, John, Noorbakhsh, Mir
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Society for Microbiology 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8106725/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33239383
http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JCM.01969-20
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description Automation in clinical microbiology is starting to become more commonplace and reportedly offers several advantages over the manual laboratory. Most studies have reported on the rapid turnaround times for culture results, including times for identification of pathogens and their respective antimicrobial susceptibilities, but few have studied the benefits from a laboratory efficiency point of view. This is the first large, multicenter study in North America to report on the benefits derived from automation measured in full-time equivalents (FTE), FTE reallocation, productivity, cost per specimen, and cost avoidance. Pre- and post-full automation audits were done at 4 laboratories that have vastly different culture volumes, and results show that regardless of the size of the facility, improved efficiencies can be realized after implementation of full laboratory automation.
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spelling pubmed-81067252021-05-10 Benefits Derived from Full Laboratory Automation in Microbiology: a Tale of Four Laboratories Culbreath, Karissa Piwonka, Heather Korver, John Noorbakhsh, Mir J Clin Microbiol Bacteriology Automation in clinical microbiology is starting to become more commonplace and reportedly offers several advantages over the manual laboratory. Most studies have reported on the rapid turnaround times for culture results, including times for identification of pathogens and their respective antimicrobial susceptibilities, but few have studied the benefits from a laboratory efficiency point of view. This is the first large, multicenter study in North America to report on the benefits derived from automation measured in full-time equivalents (FTE), FTE reallocation, productivity, cost per specimen, and cost avoidance. Pre- and post-full automation audits were done at 4 laboratories that have vastly different culture volumes, and results show that regardless of the size of the facility, improved efficiencies can be realized after implementation of full laboratory automation. American Society for Microbiology 2021-02-18 /pmc/articles/PMC8106725/ /pubmed/33239383 http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JCM.01969-20 Text en Copyright © 2021 Culbreath et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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Benefits Derived from Full Laboratory Automation in Microbiology: a Tale of Four Laboratories
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topic Bacteriology
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