2021, Cilt 19, Sayı 2, Sayfa(lar) 165-176 |
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Processes Experienced in Laboratories during COVID-19 Pandemic |
Fatma Demet Arslan, İnanç Karakoyun |
Sağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi, Tepecik Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, Tıbbi Biyokimya, İzmir, Türkiye |
Keywords: COVID-19 pandemic, disaster planning, laboratory personnel, personal protective equipment |
The importance of laboratory medicine during COVID-19 pandemic has once again become a current
issue. With COVID-19 pandemic, very important changes have occurred in terms of laboratory
processing. Some of these changes were measures related to employee health, planning regarding the
assignment of personnel, changes on the variety and number of tests, innovations in quality standards
and the contribution of laboratories to scientific studies. Due to changes in employee health and
workload distribution, some precautions were taken and disaster plans were updated. A global effort
has spent when all healthcare professionals come up against the biological threat. Interlaboratory
collaboration and a multidisciplinary approach have contributed to this effort. This review has been
summarized the experienced laboratory processes at local, national and international levels during
COVID-19 pandemic.
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