Opportunities to enhance laboratory professionals' role on the diagnostic team

Lab Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 97-103

  Taylor, Julie R ^a   Thompson, Pamela J ^a   Genzen, Jonathan R ^b   Hickner, John ^c   Marques, Marisa B ^d  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b ARUP LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^d University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Diagnostic team; Diagnostic tests; Laboratory medicine practices; Laboratory test interpretation; Laboratory test ordering; Laboratory utilization; Medical laboratory practices; Physician practice patterns

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LABORATORY PERSONNEL; LABORATORY TEST; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MEDICINE; PHYSICIAN; RANDOM SAMPLE; CLINICAL LABORATORY PERSONNEL; LABORATORY; LABORATORY TECHNIQUE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; MEDICAL LABORATORY PERSONNEL;

EID: 85019864584     PISSN: 00075027     EISSN: 19437730     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/labmed/lmw048     Document Type: Article

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