Quality control inclinical diagnostic laboratories in remote and rural areas in Africa
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The authors propose a way to improve the quality of results generated through the fragile clinical laboratory infrastructure in resource poor counties in Africa and elsewhere.
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Centripetal external quality assessment for laboratories located in remote and rural areas.
The conventional programs for external quality assessment for health-care laboratories involve the distribution of representative samples of known but undisclosed content from a central laboratory/organization for their evaluation at several individual laboratories located elsewhere. The results obtained from individual participants are analyzed to categorize individual laboratory performance. ...
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