Medical Laboratory Observer

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Articles in Jan, 1986 issue of Medical Laboratory Observer

• How technology transfer is changing lab medicine
  by Nelson L. Alpert
• A guide to management by exception; this managerial approach leaves routine decision making to the front-line supervisor
  by William O. Umiker
• Are we drawing too much blood?
  by Daisy Kattan
• Congress still intent on fee schedules as budget focus shifts to 1987 - column
• A medical technologist in central Africa; Peace Corps service in a hospital laboratory in Zaire included teaching medical technology in French and splitting dipsticks in half to stretch supplies
  by Mary K. Graden
• Competitive strategies for the changing world of blood banking
  by Mary Lee Rietzke
• Self testing: a big future? - home kits for glucose monitoring and pregnancy testing are big sellers
  by Leslie Brennan
• Guidelines for disciplinary action
  by Ed Roseman
• Strategic management in blood banking
  by Lucia Berte Bachert
• Pre-election flurry leaves lab interests scrambling - column
• Final budget reconciliation a mixed bag for health care providers - column
• Japanese QC techniques merit our attention - medical laboratories; quality control
  by William O. Umiker
• Case history of a lab consolidation; these two hospitals traveled a long road, from informal test sharing to an extensive merger study, to get their successful joint lab venture - part 1
• A supervisor evaluation form for today's lab
  by Patricia s. Conville
• The overdependent supervisor
  by Ed Roseman
• An alternative method for measuring workload - part 1
  by Carl A. Lindner
• Across the Pacific, the same lab concerns - medical technology - column
  by Annamarie Barros
• A cost-effective emergency room laboratory
  by Alan L. Portnoy
• 'This machine isn't working.'; no tool kit should be without a set of diagnostic questions for instrument troubleshooting
  by Judy E. Johnson
• Quality control in the new environment
  by Richard E. Belsey
• Using a team approach in hiring - column
  by Annamarie Barros
• Quicker QC on a small microcomputer - quality control - column
  by Christopher L. Otto
• A microcomputer test-costing program - column
  by Michael S. Sealfon
• Making the best of laboratory inspections - column
  by James M. Maratea
• How to succeed with a lab-hospital interface - computer use
  by Dennis Winsten
• Problem solving and decision making with proficiency data; analysis of proficiency surveys can help a lab troubleshoot snags in its procedures
  by John R. Snyder
• Improving lab business via a client satisfaction survey
  by James M. Root
• Safeguarding your union-free status - medical laboratories
  by Fred R. Long
• Creating career choices: advice from an MT turned entrepreneur - medical technologist
  by Judith Jenna
• MBO monitored by computer - management-by-objectives
  by Peggy Romfh
• Is the sky really falling? - new technologies will alter lab procedures and laboratory managers should respond creatively to change - column
  by Annamarie Barros
• Giving a deposition in a malpractice suit
  by Patricia C. Harris
• Creating job standards for a merit pay plan
  by Lynne S. Garcia
• Where lab managers rank in hospital pay - editorial
  by Robert J. FitzGibbon
• Instrument sales growing despite Washington - in spite of federal policies national market for laboratory instruments will grow - editorial
  by Robert J. Fitzgibbon
• CAP, physician groups push to develop office testing standards - College of American Pathologists - editorial
• AIDS and the lab: infection control guidelines; with recommended precautions, laboratory personnel face no risk of contracting AIDS through on-the-job exposure
  by William M. Valenti
• Is your lab closing these gaps in staff potential?
  by William O. Umiker
• Employees are people, too - pressures on laboratory managers affect employees - column
  by Annaamarie Barros
• Creating a calibration data base - medical laboratories
  by Michael S. Sealfon
• A primer for proficiency testing - differences in quality in hospital laboratories
  by Randy Oostra
• A single-instrument approach to TDM toxicology - therapeutic drug monitoring - medical laboratory's new analyzer enables technologist to handle workload for drug monitoring and toxicology
  by Michael S. Sealfon
• Laboratories fare well under revised hospital regulations - column
• Do you have an 'intrapreneur' in your lab?
  by William O. Umiker
• Analyzing and reducing laboratory quality costs; you can actually improve quality while cutting quality costs; here's how to do it
  by James W. Sharp
• Why are our jobs so difficult? - managing medical laboratories
  by Marateam James M.
• Making CAP workload recording work for you - College of American Pathologists' workload recoding method - column
  by Annamarie Barros
• A lab program to do bedside glucoses
  by Melba H. Eason
• Trends in new laboratory arrangements; mergers, shared services, management agreements, pathologist leases of hospital labs, and more - innovators are creating arrangements to fit every need
  by Laurence J. Peterson
• Practical cost savings in microbiology
  by Patricia C. Harris
• Auditing transcription errors: a spot check for lab performance
  by Carol Ann Banker
• Our miniscreen for drug abuse testing
  by Nancy Gowen Kropp
• Last call for entries - for 1985 Article Awards Contests for Medical Laboratory Observer - editorial
  by Robert Fitzgibbon
• Caution advised in relations with laboratory referral sources - column
• Mentoring: a tool for career development
  by William O. Umiker
• Congress prepares to strengthen fraud and abuse sanctions
• No more runaway health care spending - editorial
  by Robert J. Fitzgibbon
• An LIS is not all pluses - installing a medical laboratory information system
  by Larry H. Bernstein
• Quality control in the new environment: statistics - part 4
  by Charles F. Arkin
• A helping hand from MT to office lab staffs - medical technologists
  by Diana L. Headly
• New roles for the urine dipstick; chemical screening programs can reduce the volume of unnecessary microscopic exams and urine cultures
  by Paul Valenstein
• A look at packaged microcomputer systems
  by William E. Groves
• Is that new instrument a winner? - cost benefit analysis
  by Arthur C. Stafford
• When and how to argue; make sure the issue is important enough and that the argument can resolve it
  by Ed Roseman
• We placed glucose monitors in our phlebotomists' pockets - pocket sized glucose monitor can be used in laboratory and brings clinical testing to patients
  by Charles P. Turley
• Test your knowledge of AIDS: a self-quiz
  by Francisco R. Velazquez
• An MT makes the move to a doctors' office lab - medical technologist
  by Doris C. Ferron
• Quality control in the new environment: ligand assay and TDM; part II - therapeutic drug monitoring
• How to defuse legal dynamite in the lab
  by James L. Griffith
• The impact of DRGs after year 3: doing more with less - diagnosis related groups, part 1
  by Kris Hallam
• Ten-hour shifts solved our turnover problem - medical laboratories
  by M. Jean Maynard
• Conferees agree on lab fee ceilings in midst of budget morass
• Burnout in the lab: symptoms, stages, strategies
  by Bettina G. Martin
• Participative management lifts lab productivity
  by Joe K. Taylor
• On the road with a consulting technologist
  by Randy Oostra
• Integrated software: a quick way to audit turnaround time or paid hours - Computer Dialog
  by Michael C. Lollich
• Our envoys to the outside world - phlebotomist-technologist - column
  by James M. Maratea
• Night shift: problems and coping strategies; here's how to adapt to a way of life that is at odds with the body's natural circadian rhythms
  by James A. Sehloff
• Recipe for a successful lab manager
  by James Maratea
• A shopping list for microcomputer hardware
  by Edward N. Siguel

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