Improving the Autopsy Rate in a Teaching Hospital

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 127, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1408-1409

  Corona, Teresa ^a   Rembao, Daniel ^a   Sotelo, Julio ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOPSY; CURRICULUM; DISSECTION; EDUCATION PROGRAM; LETTER; POLICY; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; TEACHING HOSPITAL; EDUCATION; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HUMAN; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PATHOLOGY; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

AUTOPSY; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; PATHOLOGY DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; PATHOLOGY, CLINICAL; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0242303727     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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