Patient misidentification in Papanicolaou tests: a systems-based approach to reducing errors.

Erin Meyer; Shawn Underwood; Vijayalakshmi Padmanabhan

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Patient misidentification in Papanicolaou tests: a systems-based approach to reducing errors.

August 19, 2009

Meyer E, Underwood S, Padmanabhan V. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2009;133(8):1297-300.

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