Internal Quality Control and External Quality Assurance: a Great Past Opens the Way to a Bright Future

Overview

Journal Adv Lab Med

Publisher De Gruyter

Specialty Biochemistry

Date 2023 Jun 26

PMID 37362140

Authors

Mario Plebani

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Citing Articles

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Compliance to specifications in an external quality assurance program: did new biological variation estimates of the European Federation of Laboratory Medicine (EFLM) affect the quality of laboratory results?.

Ricos C, Perich C, Bullich S, Ventura M, Piqueras B, Panades M Adv Lab Med. 2023; 4(4):379-386.

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