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Research Article| Volume 5, ISSUE 4, P697-707, December 1985

Cost Containment: Strategies and Responsibilities of the Laboratory Manager

  • Bettina G. Martin
    Correspondence
    Upstate Medical Center, State University of New York, 750 East Adams Street, Syracuse, New York 13210
    Affiliations
    Professor of Medical Technology, and Laboratory Manager, Clinical Pathology, Upstate Medical Center, State University of New York, Syracuse, New York
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DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0272-2712(18)30841-2
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      The modern-day laboratory manager has the formidable task of being a leader, facing the challenge and simultaneously looking beyond it. It is essential that laboratory managers begin to comprehend the conditions under which they will survive. Change is inevitable, and laboratory managers must become change makers.
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