… utilization management challenges in the laboratory. This article will present an overview of
the literature on laboratory utilization management … specific utilization management initiatives…

… With respect to inappropriate use of the clinical laboratory, variability in the use of laboratory
tests is going to have consequences for the patient. This is because testing that is not …

… In this environment utilization management is gaining an increasingly … utilization management
and provides a “toolbox” of strategies to support implementation of utilization management …

… can positively affect laboratory expenditures and help providers use laboratory testing more
… our experience with a laboratory utilization management system (Laboratory Expert System) …

… services in modern medicine created the need to utilize UM programs in clinical laboratories
in order to reduce costs, enhance efficiency and improve on quality for patients. Some UM …

… The clinical laboratory is viewed as an area of high costs where significant reductions have
been targeted. Efficient utilization of laboratory services can be achieved by elimination of …

… for decreasing unnecessary laboratory investigations Decreases in lab utilization result in
far less impressive decreases in cost [29]. This is due to the fact that clinical laboratories have …

… timeline of laboratory test malutilization notwithstanding, we in the laboratory industry know
… technical and biomedical innovation in clinical laboratory testing is accompanied by small …

… is especially relevant to clinical laboratory test utilization. The health care payment systems
operating today in many countries remove the clinicians who make utilization decisions from …

… role of clinical pathologists in providing leadership for the utilization management program.
… The clinical laboratories include the core laboratory (chemistry-hematology), microbiology, …