Reporting guidelines for clinical laboratory reports in surgical pathology

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 132, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1608-1616

  Goldsmith, Jeffrey D ^a,f   Siegal, Gene P ^b   Suster, Saul ^c   Wheeler, Thomas M ^d   Brown, Richard W ^e  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^d BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e MEMORIAL HERMANN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LABORATORY TEST; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW; ACCREDITATION; ARTICLE; HOSPITAL LABORATORY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

ACCREDITATION; HUMANS; LABORATORIES, HOSPITAL; PATHOLOGY, CLINICAL; PATHOLOGY, SURGICAL; PATIENT CARE MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE TEAM; RESEARCH DESIGN; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 54449089880     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: 15432165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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