2017 Volume 66 Issue 3 Pages 308-314
Half a year has passed since we started a blood collection support system that prioritizes patients’ clinical schedule. We therefore investigated and evaluated the turnaround time (TAT) from reception on patients’ arrival for blood and urine collection to reporting examination results in order to confirm the time spent for medical examinations before consultation. Targeting 7,000 patients whose blood samples were drawn in September 2016 at the central blood collecting room, we selected urgent test items and counted the turnaround times of each analyzer. TAT for the urine test was 30 min or shorter and those for blood tests in most of the requested items were one hour or shorter. Consequently, this survey result confirm our common observation in the hospital that the time required for examination before consultation is one hour or shorter.
