The Internet for pathologists: A simple schema for evaluating pathology-related web sites and a catalog of sites useful for practicing pathologists

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 129, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 742-746

  Talmon, Geoffrey ^a   Abrahams, Neil A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PATHOLOGIST; PATHOLOGY; PUBLICATION; SCORING SYSTEM;

EVALUATION STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TELEPATHOLOGY;

EID: 19544379875     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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