[An Overview of JSLM Guidelines 2015 -So Far and Hereafter-]

In the Japanese Society of Laboratory Medicine, we publish guidelines as part of the societies activities and conduct revisions every three years. The current version "guidelines of laboratory medicine JSLM 2015" was published at the time of an academic meeting in 2015. The overall constitution is Chapter 1: Inspection approach, Chapter 2: Symptoms, and Chapter 3: Diseases, and the first chapter is the most unique part of these guidelines. Although this constitution has changed little since the 2012 version, the contents of each part cover most of the announcements from the different medical societies concerned and are updated. The guidelines were evaluated and criticized by various users from the point of view of how this kind of resource should be. I think that the desirable direction of these guidelines is to effectively identify the part for "a medical student, medical education" and the part for "the reference of medical tests outside one's specialty", while expanding the part of medical treatment guidelines consistent with EBM. [Review].