The fourth dimension. Management of the postmodern clinical laboratory

The clinical laboratory has undergone historic changes over the past decade. The Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 are the regulatory acknowledgement of the technological revolution that has occurred. Challenged to meet increasingly diverse medical needs while facing cost restraints...

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Published in:	Clinics in laboratory medicine Vol. 12; no. 4; p. 849
Main Author:	Elevitch, F R
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States 01-12-1992
Subjects:	Clinical Medicine - organization & administration Humans Laboratories - economics Laboratories - legislation & jurisprudence Laboratories - organization & administration Medical Laboratory Science
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Summary:	The clinical laboratory has undergone historic changes over the past decade. The Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 are the regulatory acknowledgement of the technological revolution that has occurred. Challenged to meet increasingly diverse medical needs while facing cost restraints, managerial leadership will replace technical leadership in the clinical laboratory. Ignored for half a century by most American industries, total quality management has been invoked as the embodiment of systems engineering and group decision making in the postmodern clinical laboratory. The matrix organization, workload recording, and productivity measuring are cost-effective applications of total quality management in the clinical laboratory.
ISSN:	0272-2712
DOI:	10.1016/S0272-2712(18)30492-X