title: Maximizing the efficiency of an admissions test profile in a 680-bed hospital.
abstract: I describe the development and improved use of an efficient planned and scheduled approach to laboratory testing in a large tertiary-care hospital, which anticipates virtually all the usual needs of patient and clinician and which has been demonstrated to provide better service at lower cost.
mesh_terms: D001774:Blood Chemical Analysis; D019411:Clinical Laboratory Techniques; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D006403:Hematologic Tests; D006746:Hospital Bed Capacity, 500 and over; D006801:Humans; D010343:Patient Admission