Measuring the productivity of a hospital's clinical laboratory
โ Scribed by Paul Paschke; Lawrence A. Taylor; Carl G. Thor
- Book ID
- 105502150
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Year
- 1984
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 750 KB
- Volume
- 8
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0148-5598
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
The Beckman Synchron CX4 randomaccess multianalyzer was evaluated in a medium sized hospital laboratory. The instrument does end-point, rate, and multipoint assays and carries on-board reagents for 24 tests. In addition to predefined tests, the instrument can be programmed for 100 userdefined tests;
This article proposes a method of estimating productivity growth using an estimated profit function. The approach has the advantage of incorporating endogenous changes in profit-maximizing output levels that would result from productivity changes. As with the cost function, it can be easily adapted