Claudia Bizzoni, Gavino Napolitano, Simonetta Cesa, Luca Sacella, Caterina Bianciardi, Cosimo Ottomano, Rita Mancini, Giorgio Da Rin
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Abstract
Introduction: Healthcare systems have to protect citizens' health by developing models combining concepts of efficiency, effectiveness and quality of care. The post-Covid-19 pandemic context has highlighted the relevance of efficiently managing and allocating human resources. In this scenario, the analysis and calculation of personnel needs take on strategic importance. The project aims to suggest a methodology to define the needs of Biomedical Scientists. The goal is to create a standard model adaptable to different contexts.
Methods: This project, developed in cooperation with the Italian Society of Clinical Biochemistry and Clinical Molecular Biology, has created a new format following the "Activity Based Management" approach. It is characterized by continuous improvements, based on analysis of processes, broken down into sub-processes and activities. After the phase of format development, a phase of application to different contexts, such as biochemistry and the hematology sectors, followed.
Results: The suggested methodology allows to estimate the number of Full Time Equivalents necessary for the management of the laboratory processes. Furthermore, an objective and analytical data is obtained, because it is based on timely numerical surveys that included productivity and execution times of the different activities.
Discussion: Using the format had a relevant impact on the analysis of the processes, their efficiency, and their possible improvement. This method allowed to evaluate and improve the analytical and "extra-production" activities, often underestimated but having a decisive role in the process. The proposed format can be considered a valid tool for laboratory managers to analyze and evaluating the needs of Biomedical Scientists in the laboratory. Activity Based Management allowed us to obtain precise and objective data and, at the same time, to focus on the main objective of any clinical laboratory: to create value for the patient by supporting diagnosis and treatment of paths through safe and reliable laboratory tests, which depends on a correct allocation of human resources.
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The translation of new discoveries in medicine to clinical routine has never been easy. During the second half of the last century, thanks to the progress in chemistry, biochemistry and pharmacology, we have seen the development and the application of a large number of drugs and devices aimed at the treatment of symptoms, blocking unwanted pathways and, in the case of infectious diseases, fighting the micro-organisms responsible. However, we are facing, today, a dramatic change in the therapeutic approach to pathologies and diseases. Indeed, the challenge of the present and the next decade is to fully restore the physiological status of the diseased organism and to completely regenerate tissue and organs when they are so seriously affected that treatments cannot be limited to the repression of symptoms or to the repair of damage. This is being made possible thanks to the major developments made in basic cell and molecular biology, including stem cell science, growth factor delivery, gene isolation and transfection, the advances in bioengineering and nanotechnology, including development of new biomaterials, biofabrication technologies and use of bioreactors, and the big improvements in diagnostic tools and imaging of cells, tissues and organs.
In today`s world, an enhancement of communication between multidisciplinary experts, together with the promotion of joint projects and close collaborations among scientists, engineers, industry people, regulatory agencies and physicians are absolute requirements for the success of any attempt to develop and clinically apply a new biological therapy or an innovative device involving the collective use of biomaterials, cells and/or bioactive molecules. “Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology” aspires to be a forum for all people involved in the process by bridging the gap too often existing between a discovery in the basic sciences and its clinical application.
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