Adding Value to Proficiency Testing Programs
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Adding value to proficiency testing programs.
The Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA 88) (1 ) have caused great changes not only in US laboratories but in clinical laboratories throughout the world. CLIA’s requirements for preand postanalytical control were harbingers of more complete approaches to the implementation of quality systems in clinical laboratories, such as the quality model just introduced by the National...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Chemistry
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0009-9147,1530-8561
DOI: 10.1093/clinchem/46.1.7