The challenges for laboratory management posed by cost control, managed care, organizational restructuring, information networking and health system integration call for new measures to evaluate how effectively laboratories manage emerging performance expectations. This study identifies the Delphi panel method in achieving consensus on measures of effectiveness and considers a specific application, the identification of indicators of laboratory performance, from the perspective of key constituencies.
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Zinn et al. (2001) studied this question.