The role of independent medical laboratories and collaboration mechanism / 中华医院管理杂志

ABSTRACT

The paper probed into the practice of working with independent medical laboratories in building county-wide clinical laboratories,in providing logistics and medical test support services.Such laboratories are advantageous in its developed logistics network,standardized quality management,and complete variety of testing items,notably its scale of economy.They can provide direct support to enable the county centers to rapidly cover communities with standard medical tests,thus playing a major role in the integration of county-level medical institutions.