Benchmarking pathology services: Implementing a longitudinal study

Pathology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 133-141

  Gordon, Moira ^a   Holmes, Scott ^b   McGrath, Katherine ^b   Neil, Amanda ^a  

^a Ctr for Clin Epidemiol B   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Cost analysis; Performance measures; Test nomenclature

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; LABORATORY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; PATHOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 0032988337     PISSN: 00313025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/003130299105322     Document Type: Article

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