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  • Title: Evaluation of the VALAB expert system.
    Author: Fuentes-Arderiu X, Castiñeiras-Lacambra MJ, Panadero-García MT.
    Journal: Eur J Clin Chem Clin Biochem; 1997 Sep; 35(9):711-4. PubMed ID: 9352234.
    Abstract:
    The validation of a clinical laboratory report is a process that guarantees the results contained in the report have been obtained under satisfactory metrological conditions and that they are compatible with the information available on the patient. This validation is generally carried out manually by a clinical laboratory professional, but also may be done by an expert system properly programmed, such as the VALAB system. The evaluation presented in this article consists of comparing human and system decisions of validation for 500 randomly selected clinical laboratory reports from hospitalized patients. In this evaluation, 84.8% of the reports examined by the VALAB are accepted directly without any human aid, and only 15.2% require examination by clinical biochemists.
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