Medical Laboratories Management

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In the rapidly changing modern health care environment, doctors and patients expect nothing less than perfection, and accuracy and quality are assumed. The focus of the management is on cost. This book covers the topics essentialto successful management of laboratories balancing quality and cost effectiveness. Medical Laboratories Management: Cost-Effective Methods explains how laboratories can be managed at a low cost and with greater care. Apart from discussing the ways to tackle through efficient management the financial crisis faced by the medical world, the book offers guidelines for training and imparting values to laboratory staff, directors of laboratories and professional bodies involved in laboratory education. Table of Contents Good laboratory practice regulations and accreditation Sample collection Blood sample Urine sample Culture and sensitivity testing Stool examination Spinal fluid collection Bone marrow aspiration Saliva sample Histopathology samples Samples for cytology Semen analysis Sample accountability Sample analysis Quality assurance programme Reporting results Biomedical waste management Laboratory safety Appendix 1: Hepatitis B – pre- and post-exposure guidelines Appendix 2: HIV – pre- and post-exposure guidelines Care and use of instrumentsAppendix 3: Disinfection and sterilization Laboratory information system and financial management Ethics in laboratory medicine Audit in the medical laboratoryAppendix 4: Reference values Reference