Abstract:Education, professional training, certification, and work patterns of 988 laboratory directors employed in 440 clinical laboratories licensed under the Clinical Laboratories Improvement Act of 1967 are examined. Directors of hospital laboratories as opposed to independent laboratories were more likely to be physicians (82.8% vs. 68.0%), to have completed a formal residency program (75.5% vs. 62.0%), and to be certified in both anatomic and clinical pathology (65.3% vs. 57.1%). Only 51.9% of pathologists confin… Show more
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