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Clinical Chemistry, Vol 38, 1205-1209, Copyright © 1992 by American Association for Clinical Chemistry

The history of proficiency testing/quality control

Sr Sunderman FW
Institute for Clinical Science, Philadelphia, PA 19107.

The history and origins of proficiency testing of clinical laboratories are reviewed. Since the introduction of proficiency testing in the late 1940s, dramatic improvement in laboratory performance has been demonstrated. Nonetheless, the poor performance found two decades earlier was summoned to support the passage of the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act of 1967 (CLIA '67).




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