Significant and unexpected, and critical diagnoses in surgical pathology: A College of American Pathologists' survey of 1130 laboratories

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 133, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1375-1378

  Nakhleh, Raouf E ^a   Souers, Rhona ^b   Brown, Richard W ^c  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b Molecular Pathology Division   (United States)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CHORION VILLUS; CRITICAL RESULT; CYTOLOGY; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; LABORATORY; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PATHOLOGY; POLICY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SIGNIFICANT AND UNEXPECTED RESULT; SURGICAL PATHOLOGY;

DATA COLLECTION; DIAGNOSIS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HOSPITAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; JOINT COMMISSION ON ACCREDITATION OF HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS; LABORATORIES, HOSPITAL; PATHOLOGY, SURGICAL; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; REFERENCE STANDARDS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 69749124086     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: 15432165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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