Laboratory investigations have become the cornerstone of making a diagnosis in today's health care delivery. Let it be the management of diabetes or cancer, a case of oedema or acute coronary episode, a clinician depends on the laboratory values of biochemical parameters to confirm a diagnosis or supervise the prognosis. But in the recent days, as the importance of the investigations is increasing, conflicting values from different laboratories are making it a very difficult thing for the clinicians to rely on the reports. Many doctors try to validate the authenticity of the laboratories by sending the same sample to different labs and comparing the reports.
But how does someone know which is wrong and which is right? Most of us have a very simple solution to it, bigger the brand, better is the report or costlier is the lab, better is the report. But deep in our heart, we know, that we…
