Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to investigate the efficiency levels of the decision‐
making units within the public hospital laboratories in using their supply chain towards …

The radical changes made in the delivery of modern health care have serious implications
for laboratory services, because reasoning in laboratory medicine should follow a clinical …

At the end of the 19th century, medical problem solving relied almost entirely on history
taking and physical examination. The enormous advances in science and technology that …

Desirable analytical performance goals are needed to place clinical laboratories' quality
management plan on a rational basis. While the most important basis of desirable analytical …

Aims—To identify a model to assess general practitioner use of pathology services that
could be applied to assess specific interventions designed to promote best practice …

The uncontrolled escalation of total health care expenditure despite the government's
endeavours during the past decades in the USA had led to the rapid infiltration of managed …

Setting Standards of Practice in Therapeutic Drug Monitoring... : Therapeutic Drug
Monitoring Setting Standards of Practice in Therapeutic Drug Monitoring and Clinical …

Abstract Background: The Japan Society of Clinical Pathology (JSCP) has developed a
guideline for common diagnostic test utilization in new primary care outpatients. To …

This paper describes a case study for a medical diagnostic laboratory service provider to
model the behavior of patients when choosing a patient service centre for their medical tests …

Abstract Background and Objective: Multi-criteria comparison between laboratories is
important for laboratory management to improve performance and for policymakers to make …