Physician

Pathology

Michael Astion practices Pathology. Doctor Michael L. Astion, MD is a published physician. He published 41 publications, including: 'Teaching the microscopic examination of urine sediment to second year medical students using the Urinalysis-Tutor computer program.'

Publications

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• Implementation of filmarray respiratory viral panel in a core laboratory improves testing turnaround time and patient care.
• Communicating pathology and laboratory errors: anatomic pathologists' and laboratory medical directors' attitudes and experiences.
• Use of a resident on-call database to characterize failures in communicating critical laboratory results.
• A 2-year study of patient safety competency assessment in 29 clinical laboratories.
• Online database for documenting clinical pathology resident education.
• Medical case teaching on the web.
• A 2-year study of Gram stain competency assessment in 40 clinical laboratories.
• Clinical impact associated with corrected results in clinical microbiology testing.
• Web-based method for establishing national competency benchmarks in fourteen areas of clinical laboratory services.
• Repeat examination of synovial fluid for crystals: is it useful?
• Classifying laboratory incident reports to identify problems that jeopardize patient safety.
• Characteristics of educational software use in 106 clinical laboratories.
• Web-based competency assessment system for microscopic urinalysis.
• Utilization and diagnostic yield of neurogenetic testing at a tertiary care facility.
• Using interactive software to teach image-based clinical laboratory tests in developing countries: a pilot trial in Nepal.
• A longitudinal evaluation of an educational software program: a case study of Urinalysis-Tutor.
• A two-year study of microscopic urinalysis competency using the urinalysis-review computer program.
• Teaching the microscopic examination of urine sediment to second year medical students using the Urinalysis-Tutor computer program.
• Teaching the clinical interpretation of peripheral blood smears to a second-year medical school class using the PeripheralBlood-Tutor computer program.
• Nail-Tutor: an image-based personal computer program that teaches the anatomy, patterns of pathology, and disorders of the nails.
• Panel discussion: how to monitor and minimize variation and mistakes.
• Evaluation of an interactive computer program to teach gram-stain interpretation.
• ANCA-Tutor: a program that teaches interpretation of an immunofluorescence assay.
• A computer program that periodically monitors the ability to interpret the antinuclear antibody test.
• Overtraining in neural networks that interpret clinical data.
• Application of neural networks to the classification of giant cell arteritis.
• Neural networks as expert systems in rheumatic disease diagnosis: artificial intelligence or intelligent artifice?
• Cytoplasmic tutor: a program for teaching interpretation of a microscope-based laboratory test.
• BibleCard: network-based virtual database for laboratory information.
• Electrophoresis-tutor: an image-based personal computer program that teaches clinical interpretation of protein electrophoresis patterns of serum, urine, and cerebrosp...
• K+ accumulation in the space between giant axon and Schwann cell in the squid Alloteuthis. Effects of changes in osmolarity.
• Effects of bicarbonate on glial cell membrane potential in Necturus optic nerve.
• Electrogenic Na+/HCO3- cotransport in neuroglia.
• Effects of barium and bicarbonate on glial cells of Necturus optic nerve. Studies with microelectrodes and voltage-sensitive dyes.
• Na+/H+ exchange in glial cells of Necturus optic nerve.
• Facilitation of voltage-gated ion channels in frog neuroglia by nerve impulses.
• Further studies of electrogenic Na+/HCO3- cotransport in glial cells of Necturus optic nerve: regulation of pHi.
• Application of neural networks to the interpretation of laboratory data in cancer diagnosis.
• Localization and stoichiometry of electrogenic sodium bicarbonate cotransport in retinal glial cells.
• The application of backpropagation neural networks to problems in pathology and laboratory medicine.

Schools

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• Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania

• University Of Pa Health System

• University Of Wa School Of Med

Doctors Specialties

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• Clinical Pathology
• Pathology

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