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Management engineering: techniques to keep your operations trim.

W M Edsel
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Are you considering the employment of additional staff in an attempt to help manage heavy work loads? By applying management engineering techniques, you may simplify and improve clinic operations that can then be handled by existing personnel, while at the same time demonstrate your commitment to cutting costs.

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W M Edsel. Management engineering: techniques to keep your operations trim.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10250751/

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