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Articles in Jan, 1986 issue of Medical Laboratory Observer
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Mentoring: a tool for career development
by William O. Umiker - Congress prepares to strengthen fraud and abuse sanctions
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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
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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
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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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