Laboratory medicine in the COVID-19 era: six lessons for the future

Abstract: The lockdown due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a major healthcare challenge, is a worldwide threat to public health, social stability, and economic development. The pandemic has affected all aspects of society, dramatically changing our day-to-day lives and habits. It has also changed clinical practice, including practices of clinical laboratories. After one year, it is time to rethink what has happened, and is still happening, in order to learn lessons for the future of laboratory medicine and its professionals. While examining this issue, I was inspired by Italo Calvino’s famous work, “Six memos for the next millennium”.But I rearranged the Author’s six memos into “Visibility, quickness, exactitude, multiplicity, lightness, consistency”.

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Laboratory medicine in the COVID-19 era: six lessons for the future ; volume:59 ; number:6 ; year:2021 ; pages:1035-1045 ; extent:11 ; Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine ; 59, Heft 6 (2021), 1035-1045 (gesamt 11)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Plebani, Mario

Further information

• DOI: 10.1515/cclm-2021-0367
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2022061217053492862799
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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