Outpatient order accuracy: A College of American Pathologists Q-Probes study of requisition order entry accuracy in 660 institutions

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 123, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1145-1150

  Valenstein, Paul ^a   Meier, Frederick ^b  

^a Pathology and Laboratory Management Associates   (United States)

^b NEMOURS ALFRED I DUPONT HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; OUTPATIENT;

AMBULATORY CARE; CLINICAL LABORATORY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; PATHOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032777314     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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