Editorial

Quality assurance for point-of-care diagnostic testing: It is not negotiable

Maurine M. Murtagh
African Journal of Laboratory Medicine | Vol 5, No 2 | a554 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/ajlm.v5i2.554 | © 2016 Maurine M. Murtagh | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 30 August 2016 | Published: 17 October 2016

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Maurine M. Murtagh, International Diagnostics Centre, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom

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Keywords

quality assurance; point of care testing; in vitro diagnostics

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