The impact of automation on organizational changes in a community hospital clinical microbiology laboratory

Infezioni in Medicina

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 118-125

  Camporese, Alessandro ^a  

^a S MARIA DEGLI ANGELI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Automation; Efficiency; Turn Around Time

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; INFECTION; LABORATORY PERSONNEL; LABORATORY TEST; NONHUMAN; ORGANIZATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUALITY CONTROL;

AUTOMATION; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BLOOD; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; ITALY; LABORATORIES, HOSPITAL; LABORATORY TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; TIME AND MOTION STUDIES; URINE; WORK SIMPLIFICATION; WORKLOAD;

EID: 3242702320     PISSN: 11249390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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