The role of Primary Health Care within Health system is becoming more important day by day. The emphasis is placed on professionals knowledgeable about the conditions that are present in primary care, skilled in their treatment and in contributing to their prevention. Other important factors are coordination of services with interprofessional working; reduction of waits and harmful delays; as well as avoidance of waste of equipment, supplies, ideas and energy.

CD Laboratory Diagnosis in Primary Health Care helps physicians to cope with these challenges, as it was designed to provide concise and useful information that will assist in the understanding, selection and interpretation of laboratory tests.

This program deals with biochemistry, hematology and hemostasis tests, which are an important source of data for a physician. When diagnostic procedures are thoughtfully requested, they may provide a very useful information. However, if injudiciously performed, those procedures are useless or may even be seriously confounding. Laboratory test requests, like all other diagnostic procedures, should be targeted, aiming at an accurate diagnosis and earliest possible initiation of appropriate treatment.

The CD Laboratory Diagnosis in Primary Health Care emphasizes the exact information that each test can provide and warns the physicians of the disadvantages of each test and the possibility of errors or false results. It provides a review of tests commonly used for screening and diagnostic purposes in specific illnesses, focusing on the useful information each test can provide.