title: The laboratory restructuring challenge: the reengineering imperative. An introduction to the focus issue.
abstract: This article defines restructuring and describes how this strategy for organizational survival is affecting health care overall and clinical laboratories in particular. The author explains why laboratorians are uniquely positioned, in terms of both their skills and their knowledge base, to take leadership roles in restructuring initiatives within their own institutions.
authors.affiliation: Clinical Laboratory Management Association, USA.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Pomerantz
mesh_terms: D006754:Hospital Restructuring; D006801:Humans; D007755:Laboratories, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D007857:Leadership; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D011590:Psychology, Industrial; D014481:United States