Characterization of the clinical laboratories of the municipality of Ocaña

Abstract

The services provided by clinical laboratories play a preponderant role in sanitation since the results of these examinations the doctor obtains information about the pathologies of his patients. The purpose of this study was to characterize the clinical laboratories of the municipality of Ocaña, it was developed using the quantitative methodology, with a descriptive approach, and it had a population and sample of 11 clinical laboratories in the city. The results show that they are formed as legal entities, with eleven to 46 years of experience in the field and only provide first-level services of complexity because they do not have the necessary and sufficient installed capacity to develop more advanced processes, which affects Their competitiveness in the market and the need to continuously establish strategies that allow them to have good development and high quality in the provision of services is evident.