The college of American pathologists and national society for histotechnology workload study

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 135, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 728-736

  Kohl, Shane K ^a   Lewis, Sue E ^b   Tunnkliffe, Janet ^c   Lott, Robert L ^d   Spencer, Lena T ^e   Carson, Freída L ^e   Souers, Rhona J ^f   Knapp, Robert H ^g   Movahedi Lankarani, Saeid ^h   Haas, Thomas S ⁱ   Brown, Richard W ^a  

^a Methodist Hospital Omaha   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

^c ROYAL COLUMBIAN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d Trinity Medical Center   (United States)

^e Norton Healthcare ^*

^f Pathology Laboratory   (United States)

^g ABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^h MERCY HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

ⁱ BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HISTOLOGY; HOSPITAL LABORATORY; HUMAN; MANPOWER; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NORTH AMERICA; PATHOLOGY; STANDARD; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW; WORKLOAD;

HISTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; LABORATORIES, HOSPITAL; NORTH AMERICA; PATHOLOGY; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; SOCIETIES, SCIENTIFIC; WORKLOAD;

EID: 79958841740     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: 15432165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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