Clinical Laboratory Management

Name: Clinical Laboratory Management
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ISBN: 9781683673910

by Lynne Shore Garcia, Timothy C. Allen, Vickie S. Baselski, Deirdre L. Church, Donald S. Karcher, Michael R. Lewis, Andrea J. Linscott, Melinda D. Poulter, Gary W. Procop, Alice S. Weissfeld, Donna M. Wolk

3rd Edition

Publisher: ASM Press

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Print ISBN	9781683673910
eText ISBN	9781683673934
Publisher	ASM Press
Publishing Year	2024
Edition	3rd Edition
Language	English
Pages	816

Clinical Laboratory Management, 3rd Edition, provides a structured reference for organizing and directing diagnostic health operations. Editor-in-Chief Lynne Shore Garcia leads an editorial team for this 816-page volume published by ASM Press. The text delivers laboratory professionals, managers, and students administrative models designed to support organizational operations across changing healthcare environments.

The material focuses on core managerial leadership, employee selection, motivating staff, and personnel management. Chapters address daily administrative realities, offering guidance on team building, labor relations, conflict management, effective meetings, and strategies to mitigate employee burnout. Authors outline practical approaches for conducting competency assessments, structuring performance appraisals, staffing, and scheduling.

Financial management forms a key operational pillar within the text, incorporating strategic planning, human resource financial management, cost accounting, and budgeting frameworks. Detailed chapters explain correct coding for billable diagnostic services, reimbursement compliance, billing approaches, fee schedules, and profitability determinations. This structured coverage prepares readers to navigate institutional requirements and complex healthcare fiscal demands.

Chapter 1: Clinical Laboratory Management: Basic Principles and Practices
Chapter 2: Regulatory Issues in Laboratory Medicine
Chapter 3: The Changing Practice of Medicine
Chapter 4: The Changing Healthcare Environment
Chapter 5: The Foundations of Leadership
Chapter 6: Employee Needs
Chapter 7: Motivating through Intelligent Leadership
Chapter 8: Effective Communication
Chapter 9: Effective Meetings
Chapter 10: Conflict Management
Chapter 11: Leading People Through Change in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Chapter 12: Employee Selection
Chapter 13: Performance Appraisals and Competency Assessment
Chapter 14: Staffing and Scheduling
Chapter 15: Teams, Team Process, and Team Building
Chapter 16: Labor Relations
Chapter 17: Workplace Drug Testing and the Clinical Laboratory
Chapter 18: Quality Management
Chapter 19: International Organization for Standardization
Chapter 20: Effective Communication in Laboratory Management
Chapter 21: Laboratory Information Systems
Chapter 22: Management of Point-of-Care Testing
Chapter 23: Principles of Preanalytic and Postanalytic Test Management
Chapter 24: Selection and Implementation of New Equipment and Procedures
Chapter 25: Laboratory Safety
Chapter 26: Emergency Management
Chapter 27: Financial Management: Setting the Stage
Chapter 28: Strategic Planning
Chapter 29: Human Resource Management in the Laboratory: An Important Component of Financial Management
Chapter 30: Costs, Budgeting, and Financial Decision Making
Chapter 31: Correct Coding of Billable Services in the Clinical Laboratory
Chapter 32: Approaches to Billing Laboratory Services
Chapter 33: Charges and Fees for Laboratory Services
Chapter 34: Rules and Regulations in Reimbursement
Chapter 35: Reimbursement Compliance
Chapter 36: Determination of Profitability
Chapter 37: Hospital-Based Laboratory Outreach
Chapter 38: Finance and Decision-Making in Outreach
Chapter 39: Outreach: Obstacles to Hospital Outreach and Enhancing Customer Satisfaction
Chapter 40: The Current State of the US Food and Drug Administration Process and Regulations for Diagnostic Laboratory Assays
Chapter 41: The Clinical Trial Laboratory: Research Compliance for Clinical Microbiologists
Chapter 42: Clinical Trials and Evidence Based Research in the Clinical Laboratory
Chapter 43: Benchmarking and Performance Monitoring for the Clinical Laboratory
Chapter 44: Test Utilization and Clinical Relevance
Chapter 45: The Future of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine: Political, Social, Economic, and Regulatory Impacts
Chapter 46: The Future of the Clinical Scientist Workforce
Chapter 47: Electronic Health Records and Their Implications and Opportunities for Laboratories
Chapter 48: Current Trends in Instrumentation and Technology: A Look toward the Future
Chapter 49: The Future Practice of Laboratory Medicine
Chapter 50: Epidemics and Pandemics: Lessons from the Past, Concerns for the Future
Chapter 51: One Health in Pandemic Planning, Prevention, and Response
Chapter 52: Pandemic Planning: Roles of Clinical and Public Health Laboratories
Chapter 53: Laboratory Preparedness