Entrepreneurship in medical laboratories in Quezon City /
Gino Eduardo Allorde ; Joseph Prex Arabe ; Jose Angelo Clemente ; Glodene May Desuyo ; Clarisse Gade ; Arielle Jean Madrideo ; Shaira Mae Mendoza ; Michelle Collen Pido ; Aldrich John Salipsip and Ivy Nicole Yap.
- Fairview, Quezon City: School of Medical Technology, FEU-NRMF, 2019.
- 71 pages: tables, photos; 28 cm.
Includes appendices and bibliographical references.
ABSTRACT: The medical laboratory proved its importance in the field healthcare system and the discovery of simple tests to confirm the presence of different kinds of diseases, wherein the establishment of different markers in detecting many pathological changes of the human body. The doctors rely on medical decisions and diagnoses on different battery of tests and procedures provided by medical laboratory. Like other organizations that are part of the healthcare system, the medical laboratories are also incorporating entrepreneurship on their daily operations to be able to continue their services despite the presence of internal and external economic inconsistencies and other factors that may become a challenge for the organization. The researchers had assumed that few people are aware about entrepreneurship take place in a laboratory. This prompted the researchers to undertake this study on how a laboratory has to maintain itself. Furthermore, the study aimed to determine the entrepreneurial activities of privately owned laboratories that are being incorporated with their managerial strategies as to economic management, marketing management and profit motive. The study was carried by surveying pathologist who manage laboratory within Quezon City. Thirty-three (33) questions were answered in each questionnaires, grouped questionnaires answered by primary hospitals, secondary laboratories, secondary hospitals and tertiary hospitals; tallied answers by always, frequently, sometimes and never. The results showed that for economic laboratories would provide point-of-care testing, waiting for specific number of results and batch running specimen.