Am J Clin Pathol. 2014 Feb;141(2):154-67. doi: 10.1309/AJCPIV2OG8TEGHHZ.
To analyze the demand for services from the nation's medical laboratories, which is predicted to dramatically increase as our citizens age and millions receive insurance coverage through the Affordable Care Act.
A systematic review of relevant publications and databases was conducted to assess the current state of the nation's medical laboratory workforce and to examine the impact of population demographics and health reform on workforce development to address the future demand for laboratory services.
Building a Laboratory Workforce to Meet the Future, a new report from the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP), provides a comprehensive strategy to address the future workforce needs of the nation's medical laboratories to meet this demand to provide timely, accurate, and safe patient care and to fully realize the benefits of personalized medicine.
The report, from the ASCP Task Force on the Laboratory Professionals Workforce, is a comprehensive review of the myriad of factors affecting recruitment and retention of qualified laboratory professionals and provides a set of thoughtful recommendations outlining a multifaceted approach to bolster the pipeline of potential candidates for the profession as well as leadership in health care.
分析全国医学实验室的服务需求，随着我国公民老龄化以及通过《平价医疗法案》获得医疗保险的人数增加，预计这一需求将大幅增长。
对相关出版物和数据库进行系统回顾，以评估全国医学实验室劳动力的现状，并研究人口统计和医疗改革对劳动力发展的影响，以满足未来对实验室服务的需求。
美国临床病理学会（ASCP）的一份新报告《建设未来的实验室劳动力》提供了全面的战略，以满足全国医学实验室未来的劳动力需求，以提供及时、准确和安全的患者护理，并充分实现个性化医疗的好处。
该报告来自 ASCP 劳动力工作组，全面审查了影响招聘和留住合格实验室专业人员的众多因素，并提供了一系列深思熟虑的建议，概述了多方面的方法，以增加潜在候选人进入该行业的渠道，并在医疗保健领域发挥领导作用。
