Individualized medicine and demographic change as determining workload factors in pathology: quo vadis?

Virchows Archiv

Volumn 468, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 101-108

  Warth, Arne ^a   Stenzinger, Albrecht ^a,d   Andrulis, Mindaugas ^a   Schlake, Werner ^b   Kempny, Gisela ^b   Schirmacher, Peter ^a   Weichert, Wilko ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b Institute of Pathology   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d National Center of Tumor Diseases   (Germany)

Author keywords

Demographic change; Education; Health care; Pathology; Workload

Indexed keywords

GERMANY; HUMAN; MANPOWER; PATHOLOGY; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; WORKLOAD;

GERMANY; HUMANS; PATHOLOGY, CLINICAL; PRECISION MEDICINE; WORKLOAD;

EID: 84958112956     PISSN: 09456317     EISSN: 14322307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00428-015-1869-6     Document Type: Article

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