Clinicians are from mars and pathologists are from venus: Clinician interpretation of pathology reports

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 124, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1040-1046

  Powsner, Seth M ^a   Costa, José ^a   Homer, Robert J ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VA CONNECTICUT HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DOCUMENTATION; EXPERIENCE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RECORD; PATHOLOGY; SCORING SYSTEM;

COMMUNICATION; CONNECTICUT; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PATHOLOGY, CLINICAL;

EID: 0033859971     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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