More Hospitals Advertise Shorter Patient Wait Times for Their Emergency Departments

New trend pressures clinical pathology laboratories to shorten turnaround times for key lab tests Anyone who says there’s not much competition for patients has ignored the marketing battle among hospitals to attract patients to their emergency departments (EDs). In a growing number of cities, major hospitals now aggressively advertise guarantees of ever-shorter wait times in their EDs. This trend has a direct impact on clinical pathology laboratories because they must improve turnaround time...
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