Pathology is branch of medical science that includes related scientific laboratory analysis of sickness whereby the causes, mechanisms and extent of illness are examined.
In simple terms, pathology is investigation of cause and effects of complaint and injury.
Pathology is a branch of medical science that involves examination of and diagnosis of complaint through breakdown of surgically removed tissues, organs, body fluids, and in some cases summative body.
Specialist or Physician who practise Pathology is called Pathologist.
A physician practising Pathology is called Pathologist.
Pathological laboratory tests guide exceeding 70% of medical decisions for patient care.
Types of Pathology Laboratories:
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1. Hospital Labs:
Hospitals have an in-house laboratory to exam bloods, bodily fluids, tissues, cells collected of Hospital Patients. The facilities of Hospital Labs would tally up surgical pathology, cytopathology, autopsy etc.
Almost everything hospitals contain a laboratory to maintain clinical facilities offered at hospital. Most, if not all, inpatient and many outpatients seen and admitted at hospital require exam performed by labs of hospital.
2. Public Health Labs:
Public Health Laboratories are generally accustom public organisation or government and local health departments to complete diagnosis and guard public from health threats such as outbreaks of infectious disease.
These labs accomplish tests to monitor prevalence of certain diseases in help which are public concern, such as outbreak of Covid 19, Corona, outbreak of foorborne or waterborne disease etc.
3. Reference Labs:
Reference labs are usually private, commercial facilities that conducts tall volume and speciality laboratory testing. Most of tests are referred from physician clinic, doctors clinic, hospitals and other accommodating care nursing homes. Reference labs, are generally third party laboratories that conduct and pay for laboratory services of doctors, hospitals, clinics and nursing homes for a fee. These referring doctors, clinics and hospitals refers their tests to outside labs because they do not have in-house pathology laboratory services.
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