A nationwide telepathology consultation and quality control program in China: Implementation and result analysis

Diagnostic Pathology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Chen, Je ^a   Jiao, Yahui ^b   Lu, Chaohui ^a   Zhou, Jun ^b   Zhang, Zongjiu ^b   Zhou, Chen ^c  

^a PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^b National Health and Family Planning Commission Division of Quality of Healthcare Bureau of Health Policy and Regulation   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHINA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNET; MALE; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT REFERRAL; PROCEDURES; QUALITY CONTROL; STANDARDS; TELEPATHOLOGY;

CHINA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; NEOPLASMS; QUALITY CONTROL; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; TELEPATHOLOGY;

EID: 84925343446     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17461596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-1596-9-S1-S2     Document Type: Article

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