RESUMO
It is an important role of a clinical laboratory to provide accurate results of examinations promptly when a physician requires them, and this may be generally achieved. What more can technologists do to improve the medical service? It is more helpful for other medical staff to report crude laboratory data with adequate comments, which can be easily and promptly used in medical treatment. In this reversed clinicopathological conference, the admission periods of patients were divided into several phases: the admission day, from the 1st to 7th days, and from the 1st to 15th days. We closely analyzed routine laboratory data in each phase, and commented on what might be useful for the medical staff to the grasp the pathological state of patients in each phase. If comments from the laboratory become commonly acceptable, clinical laboratories will come to play a more valuable role in medical practice.