A journey to accreditation: is ISO 15189 laboratory accreditation possible in Ethiopia?
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Pan African Medical Journal. 2016; 24:329 doi:10.11604/pamj.2016.24.329.8522 This article is available online at: http://www.panafrican-med-journal.com/content/article/24/329/full/ © Abay Sisay Misganaw et al. The Pan African Medical Journal ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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