title: The role of a department of physiological (clinical) measurement in the UK National Health Service.
abstract: The relatively new concept of a centralized department of physiological measurement, and the ways in which such a department interacts with related hospital departments within the framework of the National Health Service, are be borne in mind when setting up such a department are outlined and, finally, discussed. A variety of structural and functional considerations which are to the author describes his own department in the light of these considerations.
mesh_terms: D001698:Biomedical Engineering / Q000295:instrumentation; D004865:Equipment and Supplies, Hospital; D006748:Hospital Departments; D006801:Humans; D007221:Industry; D013677:Medical Laboratory Science / Q000295:instrumentation; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic; D012106:Research; D013222:State Medicine; D013663:Teaching; D006113:United Kingdom