[The effective and the promotion of proper use on laboratory at Surugadai Nihon University Hospital]

It is well known that laboratory data is essential to medical diagnosis and treatments. The use of laboratory tests is related to almost every process of medicine such as diagnosis, treatment, prognostic expectation, and health checkup. Since diagnoses are based on evidence now, it is obvious that the laboratory data are extremely important as objective evidence. It is necessary to have a number of laboratory tests to be conducted in order to collect the information as much as possible. However, there is 'simplification of the tests' in health insurance, or that medical institutions introducing DPC have no alternative but to restrict the number of tests. This restriction by insurance occasionally leads to the atrophic condition of laboratory tests selection. However, in primary education, proper selection of tests for first year residents is important. Surugadai Nihon University Hospital conceives this contrariety as good occasion, and is working to disseminate efficiently in order to conduct the test properly and effectively. This paper presents some specific activities which Surugadai Nihon University Hospital undertakes.