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Effects of Automation on Sustainability of Immunohistochemistry Laboratory
The COVID-19 pandemic that hit the world recently caused numerous changes affecting the health system in every department. Reduced staff numbers, mostly due to illness, led to an increase in automation at every stage of laboratory work. The immunohistochemistry (IHC) laboratory conducts a high volum...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8304755/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34356244 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9070866 |
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author | Đorđević, Marija Životić, Maja Radojević Škodrić, Sanja Nešović Ostojić, Jelena Marković Lipkovski, Jasmina Filipović, Jelena Ćirović, Sanja Kovačević, Sanjin Dunđerović, Duško |
author_facet | Đorđević, Marija Životić, Maja Radojević Škodrić, Sanja Nešović Ostojić, Jelena Marković Lipkovski, Jasmina Filipović, Jelena Ćirović, Sanja Kovačević, Sanjin Dunđerović, Duško |
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description | The COVID-19 pandemic that hit the world recently caused numerous changes affecting the health system in every department. Reduced staff numbers, mostly due to illness, led to an increase in automation at every stage of laboratory work. The immunohistochemistry (IHC) laboratory conducts a high volume of slide staining every day. Therefore, we analyzed time and total costs required to obtain IHC slides in both the manual and automated way, comparing their efficiency by processing the same sample volume (48 microscope slides—the maximum capacity that an automated immunostainer—DAKO, Autostainer Link 48, Part No AS48030—can process over a single cycle). The total IHC procedure time to run 48 slides manually by one technician was 460 min, while the automated process finished a cycle within 390 min (15.22% less time). The final cost of a single manual IHC slide was 12.26 EUR and 7.69 EUR for slides labeled in the automated immunostainer, which reduced final costs by 37.27%. Thus, automation of the IHC procedure reduces the time and costs of the IHC process, contributing significantly to the sustainability of the healthcare system during the COVID-19 pandemic, overcoming insufficient human resources. |
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spelling | pubmed-83047552021-07-25 Effects of Automation on Sustainability of Immunohistochemistry Laboratory Đorđević, Marija Životić, Maja Radojević Škodrić, Sanja Nešović Ostojić, Jelena Marković Lipkovski, Jasmina Filipović, Jelena Ćirović, Sanja Kovačević, Sanjin Dunđerović, Duško Healthcare (Basel) Article The COVID-19 pandemic that hit the world recently caused numerous changes affecting the health system in every department. Reduced staff numbers, mostly due to illness, led to an increase in automation at every stage of laboratory work. The immunohistochemistry (IHC) laboratory conducts a high volume of slide staining every day. Therefore, we analyzed time and total costs required to obtain IHC slides in both the manual and automated way, comparing their efficiency by processing the same sample volume (48 microscope slides—the maximum capacity that an automated immunostainer—DAKO, Autostainer Link 48, Part No AS48030—can process over a single cycle). The total IHC procedure time to run 48 slides manually by one technician was 460 min, while the automated process finished a cycle within 390 min (15.22% less time). The final cost of a single manual IHC slide was 12.26 EUR and 7.69 EUR for slides labeled in the automated immunostainer, which reduced final costs by 37.27%. Thus, automation of the IHC procedure reduces the time and costs of the IHC process, contributing significantly to the sustainability of the healthcare system during the COVID-19 pandemic, overcoming insufficient human resources. MDPI 2021-07-08 /pmc/articles/PMC8304755/ /pubmed/34356244 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9070866 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Đorđević, Marija Životić, Maja Radojević Škodrić, Sanja Nešović Ostojić, Jelena Marković Lipkovski, Jasmina Filipović, Jelena Ćirović, Sanja Kovačević, Sanjin Dunđerović, Duško Effects of Automation on Sustainability of Immunohistochemistry Laboratory |
title | Effects of Automation on Sustainability of Immunohistochemistry Laboratory |
title_full | Effects of Automation on Sustainability of Immunohistochemistry Laboratory |
title_fullStr | Effects of Automation on Sustainability of Immunohistochemistry Laboratory |
title_full_unstemmed | Effects of Automation on Sustainability of Immunohistochemistry Laboratory |
title_short | Effects of Automation on Sustainability of Immunohistochemistry Laboratory |
title_sort | effects of automation on sustainability of immunohistochemistry laboratory |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8304755/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34356244 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9070866 |
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