Papanicolaou smear 5-year retrospective review: What is required by the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988?

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 296-298

  Davey, Diane D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PATIENT CARE; QUALITY CONTROL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

CERVICAL INTRAEPITHELIAL NEOPLASIA; FACILITY REGULATION AND CONTROL; FEMALE; HUMANS; PATHOLOGY, CLINICAL; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 0030972987     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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