Automatic selection and reporting of laboratory results is a process in which the computer algorithms select, validate and report laboratory results according to the predefined criteria, without human intervention. If the results do not match the defined criteria, automatic verification and reporting of the test results is interrupted and manual check and verification of results is required. As a part of the Master's thesis, we aimed to introduce the process of automatic selection and reporting of laboratory results in the medical-biochemical laboratory. For this purpose we elaborated a protocol for automatically selecting and reporting of laboratory results whereby we provided guidelines for the computer algorithm rules and defined criteria for it, determined the numerical values and evaluated the proportion of actually automatically selected and reported laboratory test results. The proportion of automatically selected and reported laboratory test results was 39.1 %, which it is compatible with the results of the laboratories that firstly introduced that procedure. At the level of individual groups of laboratory tests, we found out that the process of automatic selection and reporting of laboratory results was the most successful for haematological tests (75,2 %) and hormones and markers (80,7 %). In future research, the process would need to be tested on a larger number of samples over a longer period, in different laboratories among the country.
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