title: The number of personnel needed to perform examinations.
abstract: The Association of State and Territorial Public Health Laboratory Directors and the Center for Disease Control jointly developed a relative value system for measuring laboratory workload and productivity. This system has also served as a basis for determining the cost of tests. An additional usage, estimating both the number and grade levels of personnel needed by a laboratory to perform examinations, is explained in this article.
mesh_terms: D019411:Clinical Laboratory Techniques; D007753:Laboratories; D013996:Time and Motion Studies; D000078329:Workforce