Unsatisfactory reporting rates: 2006 Practices of participants in the College of American Pathologists Interlaboratory Comparison Program in Gynecologic Cytology

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 133, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1912-1916

  Moriarty, Ann T ^a   Clayton, Amy C ^b   Zaleski, Sue ^c   Henry, Michael R ^b   Schwartz, Mary R ^d   Eversole, Galen M ^e   Tench, William D ^f   Fatheree, Lisa A ^g   Souers, Rhona J ^g   Wilbur, David C ^h  

^a Ameripath Inc   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e QUEST DIAGNOSTICS NICHOLS INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f Palomar Medical Center   (United States)

^g Molecular Pathology Division   (United States)

^h MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CYTODIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSIS, MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MEDICAL SOCIETY; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; STANDARD; UNITED STATES; VAGINA SMEAR;

CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; CYTODIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; PATHOLOGY, CLINICAL; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; SPECIMEN HANDLING; UNITED STATES; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 73949142854     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: 15432165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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