CallWall: Tracking resident calls to improve clinical utilization of pathology laboratories

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 135, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 920-924

  Buck, Thomas P ^a   Connor, Ian M ^b   Horowitz, Gary L ^a   Arnaout, Ramy A ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b ProjectLoungecom Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURES; EDUCATION; HOSPITAL LABORATORY; HUMAN; INTERNET; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PATHOLOGY; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; INTERNET; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; LABORATORIES, HOSPITAL; PATHOLOGY, CLINICAL;

EID: 79960757640     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: 15432165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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