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This paper deals with the development of a human resource planning (HRP) model for hospital laboratory personnel. External and organizational factors impacting the demand and supply of clinical laboratory personnel in an urban academic health center are identified by a Delphi process. These factors are structured into a hierarchy for the application of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). Computer software, Expert Choice, was used in model hierarchy development and judgmental elicitation process. The model result can be applicable to eliciting the perceptions, insights, and understanding of health-care decision-makers for strategic human resource planning.
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Kwak, N.K., McCarthy, K.J. & Parker, G.E. A Human Resource Planning Model for Hospital/Medical Technologists: An Analytic Hierarchy Process Approach. Journal of Medical Systems 21, 173–187 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022812322966
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