Correlation of workload with disagreement and amendment rates in surgical pathology and nongynecologic cytology.

Andrew A Renshaw; Edwin W Gould

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Correlation of workload with disagreement and amendment rates in surgical pathology and nongynecologic cytology.

May 31, 2006

Renshaw AA, Gould EW. Am J Clin Pathol. 2006;125(6):820-2.

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The investigators explored the effect of workload on error rates in diagnostic accuracy and found no correlation between the two.

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