The rate of manual microscopic examination of urine sediment: A College of American Pathologists Q-probes study of 11 243 urinalysis tests from 88 institutions

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 132, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1868-1873

  Tworek, Joseph A ^a   Wilkinson, David S ^b   Walsh, Molly K ^c  

^a ST JOSEPH MERCY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c North Carolina   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYZER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; MICROSCOPY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; URINALYSIS; URINE SEDIMENT;

BENCHMARKING; HUMANS; LABORATORIES, HOSPITAL; PATHOLOGY DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY CONTROL; UNITED STATES; URINALYSIS;

EID: 57349180096     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: 15432165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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