CEO SUMMARY: In the search for ways to add more value to lab testing services, pathologists and lab administrators are considering organizing diagnostic management teams within their hospitals. Such teams focus on complex cases and include both diagnosticians and pathologists. In his pioneering work to develop the diagnostic management team concept, pathologist Michael Laposata, M.D., Ph.D., spoke recently about how such teams improve patient outcomes while reducing the cost of care.
Pathologists Exploring Use of Diagnostic Teams
Diagnostic management teams bring together pathologists and treating physicians
- By Joseph Burns
- > From the Volume XXII No. 2 - January 26, 2015 Issue
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