Follow-up study comparing necropsy rates and discrepancies between clinical and pathologic diagnoses at a veterinary teaching hospital: 2009 versus 1989 and 1999

Journal of Small Animal Practice

Volumn 53, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 679-683

  Dank, G ^a   Segev, G ^a   Moshe, D ^a   Kent, M S ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DOG; DOG DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL; MALE; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS;

ANIMALS; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITALS, ANIMAL; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 84870241738     PISSN: 00224510     EISSN: 17485827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-5827.2012.01296.x     Document Type: Article

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