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Histopathologists are “more than machines into which one can feed coloured slides at one end and expect quality controlled answers to pour out at the other” (Wright 1975), but at the same time one must seek to avoid a Situation in which “pathological audit might be based on the frequency of irate clinicians looking for a better service” (Dudley 1975).
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Underwood, J.C.E. (1987). Quality Assessment and Control. In: Introduction to Biopsy Interpretation and Surgical Pathology. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1473-4_12
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