title: Laboratory manager's financial handbook. The laboratory's importance to the financial stability of a health-care organization.
abstract: From a financial standpoint, one of the most valuable assets in the survival of a health-care organization is the clinical laboratory. Laboratory directors, managers, and supervisors have indicated their overwhelming need to understand finance, especially cost management, to CLMA and to the author at national meetings and workshops, Tremendous financial pressures are being applied in health-care organizations across the country. Two strategic factors in their successful move into the 21st century are more appropriate test utilization and cost control in the laboratory.
authors.affiliation: Veterans Administration Medical Center, Northport, NY, USA.
authors.forename: E M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Travers
mesh_terms: D000066:Accounting / Q000379:methods*; D000465:Algorithms; D003361:Cost Allocation / Q000379:methods; D005377:Financial Management, Hospital / Q000379:methods*; D017721:Hospital Costs; D006777:Hospitals, Proprietary / Q000191:economics; D006788:Hospitals, Voluntary / Q000191:economics; D007755:Laboratories, Hospital / Q000191:economics*; D008370:Manuals as Topic; D018803:Models, Economic; D019095:Point-of-Care Systems / Q000191:economics; D014481:United States