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Effective utilization of clinical laboratories
- Source :
- Human Pathology. 9:625-633
- Publication Year :
- 1978
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 1978.
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Abstract
- Effective utilization of clinical laboratories requires that underutilization, overutilization, and malutilization be appreciated and eliminated or reduced. Optimal patient care service, although subjective to a major extent, is reflected in terms of outcome and cost. Increased per diem charges, reduced hospital stay, and increased laboratory workload over the past decade all require each laboratory to examine its internal operations to achieve economy and efficiency as well as maximal effectiveness. Increased research and development, an active managerial role on the part of pathologists, internal self-assessment, and an aggressive response to sophisticated scientific and clinical laboratory data base requirements are not only desirable but essential. The importance of undergraduate and graduate medical education in laboratory medicine to insure understanding as well as effective utilization is stressed. The costs and limitations as well as the accuracy, precision, sensitivity, specificity, and pitfalls of measurements and examinations must also be fully appreciated. Medical malpractice and defensive medicine and the use of critical values, emergency and routine services, and an active clinical role by the pathologist are of the utmost value in assuring effective utilization of the laboratory. A model for the optimal use of the laboratory including economy and efficiency has been achieved in the blood bank in regard to optimal hemotherapy for elective surgery, assuring superior patient care in a cost effective and safe manner.
- Subjects :
- Service (business)
Education, Medical
Clinical Laboratory Techniques
business.industry
Graduate medical education
Medical laboratory
Medical malpractice
Workload
medicine.disease
Pathology and Forensic Medicine
Defensive medicine
Costs and Cost Analysis
Medical Laboratory Science
Pathology
Hemotherapy
Medicine
Medical emergency
Elective surgery
Laboratories
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00468177
- Volume :
- 9
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Human Pathology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....caba4b5eda53d17a60e4802fd9fac19c