Aberrant diagnoses by individual surgical pathologists

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 77-82

  Wakely, Suzanne L ^a   Baxendine Jones, Julia A ^a   Gallagher, Patrick J ^a   Mullee, Mark ^a   Pickering, Ruth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SOUTHAMPTON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Audit; Diagnostic patterns; Overdiagnosis; Underdiagnosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLADDER BIOPSY; BLADDER DISEASE; CURETTAGE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PATHOLOGIST; PROSTATE DISEASE; RECTUM BIOPSY; RECTUM DISEASE; STOMACH BIOPSY; STOMACH DISEASE; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION; UTERUS DISEASE;

DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; NEOPLASMS; PATHOLOGY, SURGICAL; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0031964286     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000478-199801000-00010     Document Type: Article

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