Results of the survey of the quality assurance for commercially prepared microbiology media: Update from the College of American Pathologists Microbiology Surveys Program (2001)

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 127, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 661-665

  Jones, Ronald N ^a,d   Krisher, Karen ^b   Bird, Deborah S ^c  

^a JONES Group   (United States)

^b Baptist Medical Center   (United States)

^c North Carolina   (United States)

^d The JONES Group   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL LABORATORY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; GOOD CLINICAL PRACTICE; GOOD MANUFACTURING PRACTICE; HUMAN; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUALITY CONTROL; QUESTIONNAIRE; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CULTURE MEDIA; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037904576     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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