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The site is produced by American Association for Clinical Chemistry (ACC) and is the result of a collaboration of professional societies representing the laboratory community. Launched in 2001, Lab Tests Online has been designed to assist patients, or caregivers, to better understand the many clinical lab tests that are part of routine care as well as diagnosis and treatment of a broad range of conditions and diseases. If you are a medical professional, this site can serve as a quick reference tool or as a resource for keeping up with advances in laboratory science.
http://www.medical-tests-explained.info
The following are links to sites that may of assistance to you. While many of these sites provide useful information, you should assess the relevance of these information in relation to local Papua New Guinea setting. Pathology or clinical laboratory services in PNG are very basic and Medical Tests Explained has here provided information on at least 90% of medical and laboratory diagnostic tests available in PNG hospitals or laboratory services.
Sutter Health -Common Laboratory Tests
Sutter Health is a Northern Californian not-for-profit organization and its website provides comprehensive and easy to understand patient information on hundreds of medical tests and laboratory investigations as well as information on many common illnesses. This is vey useful site if you want to know details of about your illness and treatments, particularly if you still have specific queries about your medical problem. While the site was designed for patients in North California, many explanations on medical, pathology and laboratory tests and explanations on illnesses are still useful for Papua New Guineans too.
This website is developed by British Columbia Health Authority of Canada provides easy to understand fact sheets on a range of health topics for patients including common laboratory tests. When you or someone in your care needs a medical test, you may have a lot of questions. Should I have the test? Am I allowed to eat or drink before the test? Is there anything I should do to prepare? They have dedicated a section to providing you with some of the important information you may want to know about medical tests and how to prepare for them. If you want information on any medical tests, it’s easy for you to search by entering a specific word within search field.
http://www.radiologyinfo.org/en/about/
RadiologyInfo is the public information resource developed by physicians from the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) and the American College of Radiology (ACR).
The mission of RadiologyInfo™ is to dedicate to being the trusted source of information for the public about radiology and the unique and vital role of radiologists in your healthcare. This website provides comprehensive patient information on radiology scans including x-rays, ultrasounds, CT scans and MRI as well as other advanced tests not available in PNG. This is very good site of you want more detailed information on use of radiology tests in various specific disease states not only in diagnosis but also for treatment such as use of radiation for cancer treatment.
This site is designed to teach practical laboratory haemostasis and was written for laboratory staff, doctors in training and anyone who has an interest in haemostasis. It stems from a series of seminars that have run in Cambridge for some years and based on practical data interpretation exercises in haemostasis. The site will allows you to work through various tests and to undertake a number of data-interpretation questions with the answers provided and an explanation as to how these answers were derived. It includes comprehensive data on the interpretation of the various tests. The site does not discuss the management of clinical problems.