A comprehensive volume presenting authoritative information on the management challenges facing today's clinical laboratories. Contained here is an array of administrative tools, including numerous appendices providing guidelines for relevant documentation, information on regulatory requirements, and managerial tools pertaining to personnel, financial, and technical issues, as well as checklists, worksheets, forms, Web addresses, and a complete glossary of specialized terms. As a resource for laboratory directors, managers, and supervisors, this book will teach healthcare practitioners at all levels how to hear, speak, and thoroughly understand the operational language of healthcare administration.