Accuracy of send-out test ordering: A college of American pathologists Q-probes study of ordering accuracy in 97 clinical laboratories

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 206-210

  Valenstein, Paul N ^a   Walsh, Molly K ^b   Stankovic, Ana K ^c  

^a ST JOSEPH MERCY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Molecular Pathology Division   (United States)

^c Preanalytical Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SYSTEM; INFORMATION SYSTEM; LABORATORY TEST; MEDICAL ERROR; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PATHOLOGIST;

CLINICAL LABORATORY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; MEDICAL ERRORS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; PATHOLOGY, CLINICAL; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 38949212981     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: 15432165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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