Working toward a sustainable laboratory quality improvement programme through country ownership: Mozambique’s SLMTA story
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Working toward a sustainable laboratory quality improvement programme through country ownership: Mozambique’s SLMTA story
BACKGROUND Launched in 2009, the Strengthening Laboratory Management Toward Accreditation (SLMTA) programme has emerged as an innovative approach for the improvement of laboratory quality. In order to ensure sustainability, Mozambique embedded the SLMTA programme within the existing Ministry of Health (MOH) laboratory structure. OBJECTIVE This article outlines the steps followed to establish ...
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عنوان ژورنال: African Journal of Laboratory Medicine
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2225-2010,2225-2002
DOI: 10.4102/ajlm.v3i2.253