Product Description
This text addresses the clinical challenges and questions that arise in the everyday operation of the clinical lab. Emphasis is on providing practical solutions to the most common, but not necessarily easy to solve problems.
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This thoroughly practical guide is packed with read-to-use solutions to the everyday concerns of the clinical laboratory manager. Designed for busy laboratory professionals, Common Problems in Clinical Laboratory Management puts tested lab procedures, operations, and answers into a well-illustrated, user-friENDly format. This all-inclusive reference manual helps you: understand and comply with CLIA '88 and OSHA regulations; meet other safety and disease-control standards; prepare manuals for general operating procedures and standard operating procedures; pass proficiency tests and inspections; establish a quality assurance program and fulfill quality control guidelines; handle personnel and administrative issues; solve documentation dilemmas and master coding and billing CPT and ICD; generate laboratory numbers linearity, normal values, statistics and organize data. Common Problems addresses a host of other critical issues as well. In fact, it's designed to solve the majority of problems routinely encountered in clinical laboratory management. Also, the AppENDixes contain two sample manuals, a General Operating Procedure Manual, and a Standard Operating Procedure Manual. With a workable, one-step-at-a-time approach to each issue, this guidebook provides a simple and sound foundation for a well-running clinical laboratory.