Amended reports in surgical pathology and implications for diagnostic error detection and avoidance: A College of American Pathologists Q-Probes study of 1 667 547 accessioned cases in 359 laboratories

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 303-309

  Nakhleh, Raouf E ^a   Zarbo, Richard J ^a  

^a HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL LABORATORY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; FROZEN SECTION; QUALITY CONTROL; UNITED STATES;

DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; MEDICAL RECORDS; PATHOLOGY, SURGICAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL;

EID: 0031890259     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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