A model for the autopsy-based quality assessment of medical diagnostics.

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Published in Hum Pathol on February 01, 1990

Authors

R E Anderson1, R B Hill, F Gorstein

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Pathology, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque 87131.

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