Interinstitutional comparison of frozen section turnaround time: A college of American pathologists Q-probes study of 32 868 frozen sections in 700 hospitals

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 121, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 559-567

  Novis, David A ^a   Zarbo, Richard J ^b  

^a Wentworth Douglass Hospital   (United States)

^b HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FROZEN SECTION; GOOD LABORATORY PRACTICE; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL BED UTILIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL STUDENT; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATHOLOGIST; QUALITY CONTROL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESIDENT; TIME;

AUSTRALIA; CYTODIAGNOSIS; EUROPE; FROZEN SECTIONS; HONG KONG; HOSPITALS, PRIVATE; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LABORATORIES, HOSPITAL; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH AMERICA; PATHOLOGY; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030947358     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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