[Consulting work cited in the hospital laboratory annual progress report of the laboratory information and consulting work and its role in Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University Hospital]

Recently, it is difficult for general patients to understand clinical inspection. Therefore we opened the laboratory information and consulting office (called Kensa Yorozu Consulting Room) from April, 2004. It is most characteristic that our office is managed by a clinical laboratory physician. A full time-specialized doctor who is belong to clinical laboratory, is stationed in the office. Duties contents of our office are consultation, publishing laboratory report and information, education and the clinical studies. We don't limit a person of consultation in particular. We accept consultations for 24 hours by coming our office, telephone, Fax or E-mail. The amount of consultations is about 5-10 per one month. The contents are suggesting inspection plan, explanation of pathophysiologic information based on clinical inspect result and so on. The examples compiled it into a database and maintains and their answers information. Because there are clinical laboratory physicians in this office, there are merits that follow. As for the medical technologist, it was not interfered with routine duties. For doctors and co-medical staffs, it is possible for detailed arguments to the diagnosis and treatment considered the condition of a patient and a characteristic of laboratory method. Doctors of outside can talk with us by telephones or emails easily. For patients, they can smoothly talk about their diseases with their physicians knowing more laboratory information. More medical stuffs need our office, because there are many repeaters although the total number is small. Therefore it is important that we let everybody know about our works and that we make good communication environment to talk easily, keeping privacy. We want to compile and share database of laboratory information. Then we can contribute to the area medical care.