title: Standardization across multiple sites.
abstract: Standardizing products, procedures, and processes in clinical departments across multiple sites has significant potential for improving clinical outcomes, enhancing financial savings, and simplifying management processes. This is true whether a network of owned hospitals is working toward a full-scale clinical integration or a group of community hospitals is collaborating to gain cost efficiencies. By developing a functional team and designing a relatively simple program, the results can be very rewarding. The author describes some of the basic principles in designing a standardization program and cites some examples of successful programs as well as listing some pitfalls to be avoided along the way.
authors: MDS Laboratory Services, USA.
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authors: Diehl
mesh_terms: D002201:Capital Expenditures; D019411:Clinical Laboratory Techniques / Q000295:instrumentation*; D003363:Cost Control; D004864:Equipment and Supplies / Q000592:standards*; D007753:Laboratories / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D008330:Management Audit; D010934:Planning Techniques; D017064:Process Assessment, Health Care; D016730:Program Development; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D012015:Reference Standards; D014481:United States; D014941:Work Simplification