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J Buchanan. 1994. Screen and pathway standards for interfacing.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7950102/
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Controlling occupational exposure to chemical substances in biomedical laboratories is very complex because of the high number of compounds involved, and the rapid changes in analytical techniques and methods. On the other hand, evidence of increased mortality for malignant lymphoma and leukemia has been observed in laboratory technicians. This calls for more precise procedures of risk assessment to identify the specific substances that may be responsible for these effects. A model of hazard identification is presented, which includes the following steps: identification, classification and periodical updating of the chemical substances used in each analytical technique; evaluation of the variables that can influence the exposure; quantification of exposure using environmental measurements. The availability of such a procedure can be useful for the organization of health and epidemiological surveillance programs for the laboratory workers.
The hardware and software facilities for electronic storage, transfer and handling of data is such that multipurpose databases can be made accessible without geographic restriction at low cost. The versatile and flexible underlying structures allow for ease of access and retrieval of data and gives presentation formats fully comparable to printed counterparts. Because of the apparent ease of use and because of the wider distribution of the information, misinterpretation is more likely to occur than in oral or written presentation for more restricted and more culturally homogeneous audiences. This necessitates some degree of harmonisation/standardisation of data on transfer, while allowing local expression forms at sender and receiver ends (Fig. 1). This document is part of an ongoing international effort to agree on some sort of "standardisation" of the transmission and presentation of "laboratory results". It centers on the domain of drugs of abuse as defined by the International Olympic Committee.
The history of the ten conferences on Computing in Clinical Laboratories (CCL) since the first one in Birmingham, UK, 1975, mirrors the developments in medical laboratory computing during nearly twenty years.