title: [Perspective for clinical laboratory management and its systematization--effects of the systematization of clinical laboratory management].
abstract: There are a large number of ideas concerning the systematization of clinical laboratory management. Therefore many types of laboratory systems have been constructed. As our hospital is not large, we adopted a small scale laboratory system. In introducing it, we expected not only an increase in value-added labor productivity by automating laboratory tests, but also an improvement in technologist's cost awareness. Consequently, new system equipment has itself performed the former in many sections, but not the latter. Improvement in cost awareness was caused by the technologist's routine work in managing reagent and material stocks. We found that this soft-type systematization has been more important than the advanced hard-type system.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Laboratory, General Hanamaki Hospital.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ito
mesh_terms: D001364:Awareness; D003363:Cost Control; D004526:Efficiency; D006801:Humans; D007755:Laboratories, Hospital / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017056:Medical Laboratory Personnel / Q000523:psychology