An approach to studying the cost behavior of changing utilization of a hospital laboratory.
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Strategies for cost containment in the clinical laboratory have been proposed and some are being tested. An approach is described and illustrated in this article for estimating the size of a cost reduction that might be observed in response to hypothetical changes in the utilization of the clinical laboratory. The variability of laboratory costs with changing volume is reported as a function of the assumptions made.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Human pathology
دوره 11 5 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1980