A laboratory productivity monitoring system

Over the years, hospitals have attempted to organize and install systems for measuring laboratory workloads and evaluating personnel needs. However, successful accomplishment of this goal has eluded many facilities because of failure to integrate such systems into the normal operating management routine of the laboratory and the hospital. This paper focuses on how to develop a personnel productivity monitoring system that surmounts the classical errors. It includes an overview of procedures that should be used to quantify personnel needs and presents a reporting system which can be utilized by laboratory management to monitor personnel productivity on an ongoing basis.