Defining laboratory medicine : a circle cannot be squared

Croatian Society of Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine..

At the down of the third millennium, it is rather misleading to consider the "whole population" as a conceptual entity, whereby the population is actually composed by single individuals, who differ broadly in terms of age, sex, ethnic origin, occupation, health, wellbeing, lifestyle and risk factors. While reaffirming strongly that laboratory medicine shall aim to provide data that could be translated into actionable information on "BOTH" an individual and universal level, we confute and refuse the naive and too simplistic approach that the common beneficence shall always be prioritized over the individual good, since the common good is just the sum of many individual beneficences.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:31

Enthalten in:

Biochemia medica - 31(2021), 2 vom: 15. Juni, Seite 020401

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Lippi, Giuseppe [VerfasserIn]
Plebani, Mario [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Definition
Journal Article
Laboratory medicine
Testing

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 19.08.2021

Date Revised 19.08.2021

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.11613/BM.2021.020401

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM326883665