background : medical laboratory plays a critical role in maintaining and promoting health. increasing wide applications of laboratory medicine in clinical practice have highlighted specific topics in the areas of social, professional and ethical issues in the laboratory. despite the important role of clinical lab in health system, ethical issues have been rarely discussed for clinical labs. con...

Copyright © 2013 Mina Hur et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Clinical laboratories have a vital role to play in translating research findings into clinically useful measurements. This involves assessment of new...