Eliminating unnecessary urine cultures to reduce costs

Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 829-832

  Onderdonk, Andrew B ^b,c   Winkelman, James W ^b   Orni Wasserlauf, Ruth ^a  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c CHANNING LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL LABORATORY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COST CONTROL; HOSPITAL LABORATORY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; REVIEW; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE CULTURE;

EID: 0029906688     PISSN: 00075027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/labmed/27.12.829     Document Type: Review

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