Are physicians' office laboratory results of comparable quality to those produced in other laboratory settings?

JAMA

Volumn 279, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 468-471

  Hurst, Jerry ^a   Nickel, Karen ^a   Hilborne, Lee H ^b,c,d  

^a CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^d UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; LABORATORY TEST; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVATE PRACTICE; QUALITY CONTROL; RELIABILITY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0032506988     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.279.6.468     Document Type: Article

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