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Purpose of Lean Implementation (continued)
- Lab expenditure represents 5% of total healthcare expenditure
- 70% of clinical decisions are based on lab information
- Lab medicine testing failures have major downstream implications
- Pre-pre-analytic phase—choice of the test
- Pre-analytic phase—performance of the test
- Analytic phase—processing and analysis of the specimen
- Post-analytic phase—reporting of the test result
- Post-post-analytic phase—use of the test result in patient care
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