Q-tracks: a College of American Pathologists program of continuous laboratory monitoring and longitudinal tracking.

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  2002

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  Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine

• Publication date

  2002-09-01

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  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1043/0003-9985(2002)126<1036:QT>2.0.CO;2PMID 12204052
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