About Laboratory Tests

True to Apollo standards, our pathology lab uses some of the most advanced imported equipment for carrying out various lab tests. Different laboratories can use different methods for the same test so the results can not always be directly compared between laboratories. A laboratory will have its own set of normal values. An abnormal lab test will normally require repeating to confirm the result.

Doctors have an old saying. "Treat the patient not the lab test" meaning that an isolated abnormal lab result may not mean an abnormality in the patient.

Medical laboratory tests are often grouped when they are reported. This is because a group of tests may give more information about a disease or body organ than one single test.

Many lab tests are carried out on automated testing machines or with special kits which contain testing chemicals of controlled quality so that the tests are reproducible and reliable. Other tests require considerable manual handling. All tests have errors built in to them and good laboratories control and minimise these errors on a regular basis.

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