{"id":118,"date":"2016-02-09T07:36:10","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T07:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/hospital\/?page_id=118"},"modified":"2016-03-01T12:06:33","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T12:06:33","slug":"laboratory","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.drsrramanagoudarmsh.com\/?page_id=118","title":{"rendered":"Laboratory"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"widget-title\">Laboratory<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-338 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost\/hospital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/LABORATORY-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"LABORATORY\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>A <b>medical laboratory<\/b> or <b>clinical laboratory<\/b> is a <a title=\"Laboratory\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Laboratory\">laboratory<\/a> where tests are usually done on clinical specimens in order to obtain information about the <a title=\"Health\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Health\">health<\/a> of a <a title=\"Patient\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patient\">patient<\/a> as pertaining to the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. \u00a0In many countries, there are two main types of labs that process the majority of medical specimens. <b>Hospital laboratories<\/b> are attached to a <a title=\"Hospital\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hospital\">hospital<\/a>, and perform tests on patients. <b>Private<\/b> (or <b>community<\/b>) <b>laboratories<\/b> receive samples from <a title=\"General practitioner\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/General_practitioner\">general practitioners<\/a>, insurance companies, <a title=\"Contract research organization\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Contract_research_organization\">clinical research sites<\/a> and other health clinics for analysis. For extremely specialised tests, samples may go to a research laboratory. A lot of samples are sent between different labs for uncommon tests. It is more cost effective if a particular laboratory specializes in a rare test, receiving specimens (and money) from other labs, while sending away tests it cannot do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laboratory A medical laboratory or clinical laboratory is a laboratory where tests are usually done on clinical specimens in order to obtain information about the health of a patient as pertaining to the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. \u00a0In many countries, there are two main types of labs that process the majority of medical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-118","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drsrramanagoudarmsh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drsrramanagoudarmsh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drsrramanagoudarmsh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drsrramanagoudarmsh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drsrramanagoudarmsh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.drsrramanagoudarmsh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309,"href":"http:\/\/www.drsrramanagoudarmsh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118\/revisions\/309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drsrramanagoudarmsh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}