Dostępność, jakość i finansowanie diagnostyki laboratoryjnej - ważne źródło informacji medycznej

Laboratory tests are the cheapest and easily accessible source of medical information about a patient. Although they make an important and frequently decisive element of the diagnostic and therapeutic process, the expenditure on tests in Poland is many times lower than that in other countries of the European Union. The Supreme Audit Office, in accordance with its work plan and guided by the suggestions of the Parliamentary Health Committee, has conducted an audit to evaluate the organisation, quality, access to and financing of the activities related to laboratory diagnostics. The audit comprised: the Ministry of Health, medical entities and laboratory diagnostics subcontractors, including medical diagnostic laboratories in six regions of Poland.