Strategies for laboratory cost containment and for pathologist shortage: Centralised pathology laboratories with microwave-stimulated histoprocessing and telepathology

Pathology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 5-9

  Leong, Anthony S Y ^a   Leong, F Joel W M ^b  

^a JOHN HUNTER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b Mirada Solutions   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Centralised laboratories; Cost containment; Histoprocessing; Microwaves; Telepathology; Ultrarapid processing

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; CENTRALIZATION; CLINICAL LABORATORY; COST CONTROL; HEMATOLOGY; HISTOCHEMISTRY; LABORATORY; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROWAVE IRRADIATION; PATHOLOGIST; PATHOLOGY; PRODUCTIVITY; REVIEW; TISSUE SECTION; TURNOVER TIME;

EID: 14644430898     PISSN: 00313025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00313020400023586     Document Type: Article

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