Reporting results from a clinical pharmacological laboratory using a microcomputer

Responsibility lies with an analytical pharmacological laboratory to issue each result with an assessment of its validity for the corresponding patient. This is scarcely possible by the usual manual methods of data handling even when complete diagnostic and pharmacokinetic data are available, because of the staff time required. Use of a microcomputer running a suite of True Basic programs showing "artificial intelligence" solves the temporal difficulty and leads to the issue of more incisive, detailed reports.