Laboratory medicine

Laboratory medicine includes academic fields of coagulation research and clinical chemistry, clinical immunology and transfusion medicine, clinical microbiology, and clinical pharmacology. Laboratory Medicine technology performs laboratory tests on patient samples. The results obtained by these tests are a critical tool for physicians in their diagnosis and treatment of disease. Laboratory medicine physicians perform more than 13 million tests annually. Laboratory medicine uses biochemical and microbiological tests of body fluids, cells, and tissues to qualify disease.