Quality assurance of autopsy face sheet reporting, final autopsy report turnaround time, and autopsy rates: A College of American Pathologists Q- probes study of 10 003 autopsies from 418 institutions

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 120, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1003-1008

  Baker, Peter B ^a   Zarbo, Richard J ^b   Howanitz, Peter J ^c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL LABORATORY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; QUALITY CONTROL;

AUTOPSY; CANADA; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; PATHOLOGY, CLINICAL; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0029828951     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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