Proficiency testing experience with college of american pathologists' programs at a university hospital in China from 2007 to 2011

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 138, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 114-120

  Liu, Xiaojuan ^a   Dai, Qingkai ^a   Jiang, Yongmei ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 84892748403     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: 15432165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5858/arpa.2012-0526-OA     Document Type: Article

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