DESCRIPTION:
This is a modern text that combines the fundamentals of methodology with key elements of interpretation. This book blends business and management issues, analytical principles, and clinical material for practicing pathologists, residents, fellows, and laboratorians. The text is organized into three major sections: laboratory management, instrumentation and methods, and analysis and clinical correlation. The first section addresses issues essential for running a profitable laboratory modern techniques and instrumentation are examined in the second section and the analysis and clinical correlation section provides the reader with numerous diagnostic algorithms that illustrate common work-ups and problems. In addition, case studies selectively illuminate specific clinical issues.
CONTENTS:
1. Overview of Laboratory Management: An Introduction and Perspective.
2. Accreditation and Regulation in the Clinical Laboratory.
3. Human Resources Management.
4. Laboratory Safety: An Overview.
5. The Laboratory Manager: Role in Compliance, Organizational Structure, and Financial Management.
6. Budget Management and Benchmarking.
7. Cost Accounting in the Clinical Laboratory.
8. Quality Control / Quality Assurance.
9. Diagnostic Accuracy of Laboratory Tests and the Establishment of Reference Ranges.
10. Method Evaluation and Technology Assessment.
11. Operations Analysis, Reengineering, and Process Improvement.
12. Reimbursement for Laboratory Services.
13. Point-of-Care Testing.
14. Specimen Transport, Logistics, and Processing.
15. Integrated Automation in the Clinical Laboratory.
16. Development of Laboratory Instrument Platforms.
17. Assay Development and the Role of the FDA.
