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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1993-5-28
pubmed:abstractText
Expenditures on laboratory tests have increased by 468% in real dollars in two decades although the cost per test has remained constant. Cost of labor has doubled over that period, with an approximately similar increase in personnel productivity as the offset. Part of the increased labor cost relates to increased pay for technologist work of apparent increased complexity. We found that technologists perceived less than 20% of all work and less than 4% of all tests performed to be highly complex or of moderately high complexity. Implications of these findings for test complexity analysis and for technologist training are discussed.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0893-3952
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
6
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
220-4
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1993
pubmed:articleTitle
Economic analysis of the clinical laboratory: labor implications.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Pathology, Vancouver General Hospital, University of British Columbia.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article