Use of excel spreadsheets to create interpretive reports for laboratory tests requiring complex calculations

Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 5-12

  Wians Jr , Frank H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; CALCULATION; CLINICAL CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COST CONTROL; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; ELECTRONIC SPREADSHEET; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; LABORATORY TEST; PATHOLOGY; REVIEW;

EID: 77952005155     PISSN: 00075027     EISSN: 19437730     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1309/LM23S8QMKXSPHBJF     Document Type: Review

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