Estudio del tiempo de procesamiento de un sistema preanalítico en un laboratorio de atención primaria

Results There are comments about the changes in the initial design of the system. For an average workload of 1364 serum samples/day, the turnaround time of the current configuration was 255.9 min. The resulting rate was 319 samples/h with an average of 0.95 aliquots/sample. In the theoretical models, with the most favorable combination of aliquots, the reduction in turnaround time was 18.3%. Conclusions The present design of the preanalytical system was adapted to the characteristics of our laboratory, with a large number of samples and with limited working hours, however, improvements should be made. Even the more favorable theoretical model does not allow us to make an aliquot for storage of serum in our work time. Additional studies are needed, including the total turnaround time of process in the immunoassay analyzers, to verify if a possible grouping of immunoassay analyzers and, in particular. which of them, will increase the efficiency of the overall analytical process.