Audit of an emergency biochemistry service.
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Audit of an emergency biochemistry service.
AIM To examine a model for the evaluation of appropriateness of testing in an emergency biochemistry laboratory. METHODS A model was devised in which incoming emergency test requests were categorised as appropriate or inappropriate. Explicit criteria were used to define eight minor categories, which were chosen to reflect accurately current working practice within the hospital and laboratory....
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Pathology
سال: 1995
ISSN: 0021-9746
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.48.12.1126