Proficiency testing (PT), recognized as a quality-assurance (QA) and quality-improvement tool, also has become the cornerstone of the Health Care Financing Administration's (HCFA) regulatory strategy under the revised Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act of 1967 (CLIA '67) and the proposed Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA '88). Use of PT as a regulatory tool corrupts it f...

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This work was supported in part by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Naval Research Laboratory – Radar Division, and the Office of Naval Research base funding program. All views and opinions expressed here are the authors’ own and do not reflect the official position of the U.S. Department of Defense. Portions of this paper were presented at the 2014 IEEE Radar Conference [1]. Ph...

Corresponding autor: Dr. Moushumi Lodh Laboratory Services, The Mission Hospital Imon Kalyan Sarani, Sec 2C, Bidhannagar, Durgapur, West Bengal India. Pin713212 Email: [email protected] Phone: 09800881640 Declarations: Competing interests: None Funding: None Ethical approval: Not required The patient has provided written, informed consent to publishing. Guarantor: ML Contributorship: ML ...

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