1.Our hospital's attempts at outsourcing its rear services
Chinese Journal of Hospital Administration 2001;17(2):122-123
Outsourcing hospital rear service is an inevitable result of the deepening of hospital reform and each hospital has its own ways of promoting the move. The authors give an account of the measures adopted in their hospital: ①detennining which part of the rear service was to be outsourced first; ②selecting the organizations for cooperation; ③clarifying the obligations of each party and drawing up working standards; ④amplifying necessary rules and regulations; and ⑤strengthening organization and management. Marked effects have been obtained as a result of about half a year's practice: ①optimization of the contingent of temporary workers which has rid the hospital of the worries behind; ②promotion of the change of concepts on the part of the staff which has led to an intensification of the sense of urgency and the awareness of competition; ③improvement of the quality of the rear service; and ④economy of funds.
2.Clinical application of multi-marker combined detection model in diagnosing type 4a myocardial infarction
Yujie WU ; Bo DENG ; Mingquan GUO ; Jue WANG ; Ye HE ; Haoyu MENG ; Liansheng WANG
Chinese Journal of Clinical Laboratory Science 2024;42(8):574-579
Objective To compare the diagnostic performance of a multi-marker panel(copeptin,cardiac troponin T[cTnT],and heart-type fatty acid-binding protein[HFABP])with the single marker cTnT in the diagnosis of type 4a acute myocardial infarction(AMI),and explore the application value of combined detectionmodel with the multiple markers.Methods The enrolled non-AMI pa-tients underwent elective percutaneous coronary intervention(PCI)at Nanjing Medical University First Affiliated Hospital during the period from March to December 2022 and were assessed as postoperative elevation of cTnT above the 99th percentile upper reference limit(URL).According to the Fourth Universal Definition of Myocardial Infarction,the patients were divided into non-type 4a AMI group and type 4a AMI group based on whether type 4a AMI occurred after surgery.The concentrations of AMI biomarkers were meas-ured using a chemiluminescent immuno-gold nanoassembly immunosensor array(chemiluminescent immuno-Gold,ciGold).Receiver operating characteristic(ROC)curves were used to analyze the performance of the diagnostic models with single and combined cardiac biomarkers.The sensitivity and specificity were also obtained from the ROC curves,and the area under the ROC curve(AUCROC)was calculated to evaluate respective diagnostic value.Kappa analysis was used to assess the consistency between the results combined de-tection model of multiple biomarkers and the diagnosis based on the Fourth Universal Definition of Myocardial Infarction.Results In this study,a total of 65 patients were included in whom females accounted for 23.1%.The ROC curve indicated that the combined de-tection model of multiple cardiac biomarkers showed specificity of 96.5%,sensitivity of 92.3%,agreement rate of 94.6%,positive pre-dictive value of 92.3%,negative predictive value of 96.2%,and AUCROC of 0.979.The single cTnT diagnostic model showed specificity of 94.2%,sensitivity of 100%,agreement rate of 95.7%,positive predictive value of 100%,negative predictive value of 94.9%,and AUCROC of 0.987.Although the combined detection model of multiple biomarkers had lower sensitivity(P=0.011),it showed higher specificity(P=0.016).The analysis of AUCROC differences between the two diagnostic models showed P>0.05,indicating no signifi-cantly statistical difference for the diagnostic accuracy.Kappa analysis demonstrated a strong consistency between the combined detec-tion model of multiple cardiac biomarkers and the diagnosis of type 4a AMI based on the Fourth Universal Definition of Myocardial In-farction with a Cohen's Kappa coefficient of 0.818.Conclusion The multi-marker combined detection model showed similar perform-ance of cTnT in diagnos of type 4a AMI with strong diagnostic consistency.However,the combined detection model exhibited an advan-tage of higher specificity.