Improvements in clinical diagnostic accuracy after a 5-year systematic analysis of clinical and autopsy discrepancies [3]

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 130, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1261-1262

  Vadillo, Miquel ^a   Pujol, Ramon P ^a   Corbella, Xavier ^a   Gorriz, Teresa ^a   Rabasa, Pere ^a   Bernat, Roger ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL LABORATORY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATHOLOGIST; PNEUMONIA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AUTOPSY; DIAGNOSIS; HUMANS; PATHOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 33748524202     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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