Improving patient safety through quality assurance

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 130, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 633-637

  Raab, Stephen S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL LABORATORY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; FROZEN SECTION; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PATHOLOGIST; PATIENT SAFETY; QUALITY CONTROL; UTERINE CERVIX BIOPSY; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY;

HUMANS; MEDICAL ERRORS; PATHOLOGY, SURGICAL; PATIENTS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; SAFETY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 33646694120     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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