MEASURING EXCELLENCE: COLLEGE OF AMERICAN PATHOLOGISTS LABORATORY ACCREDITATION PROGRAM AND QUANTITATIVE PROFICIENCY TESTING OUTCOMES
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9. Davis, J., Bittner-Fagan, H., & Savoy, M. (2017). Improving Patient Safety: Common Outpatient Medical Errors. FP essentials, 463, 11-15.
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12. Girma, M., Desale, A., Hassen, F., Sisay, A., & Tsegaye, A. (2018). Survey-defined and interview-elicited challenges that faced Ethiopian Government Hospital Laboratories as they applied ISO 15189 accreditation standards in resource-constrained settings in 2017. American Journal of Clinical Pathology, 150(4), 303-309.
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14. Grochau, I. H., Leal, D. K. B., & ten Caten, C. S. (2020). European current landscape in laboratory accreditation. Accreditation and Quality Assurance, 25, 303-310.
15. Gupta, P. C. (2015). Method validation of analytical procedures. Pharma Tutor, 3(1), 32-39.
16. Halim, A. B. (2013). Proficiency testing for monitoring global laboratory performance and identifying discordance. Laboratory Medicine, 44(1), e19-e30.
17. Harada, S., & Mackinnon, A. C. (2023). Navigating Next-Generation Sequencing Laboratory Developed Tests: A Critical Look at Proficiency Testing, US Food and Drug Administration Regulations, and Clinical Laboratory Performance. Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine.
18. Hirano, A., & Ohno, H. (2015). Utilization of CAP Survey, Based on Questionnaire Results from Survey Participants. Rinsho byori. The Japanese Journal of Clinical Pathology, 63(8), 934-946.
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22. Howanitz, P. J. (2005). Errors in laboratory medicine: practical lessons to improve patient safety. Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, 129(10), 1252-1261.
23. Ibrahim, F., Dosoo, D., Kronmann, K. C., Ouedraogo, I., Anyorigiya, T., Abdul, H., ... & Koram, K. (2012). Good clinical laboratory practices improved proficiency testing performance at clinical trials centers in Ghana and Burkina Faso. PLoS One, 7(6), e39098.
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27. Kels, B. D., & Grant-Kels, J. M. (2012). The spectrum of medical errors: when patients sue. International journal of general medicine, 613-619.
28. Kobayashi, R. M., & Ayoub, A. C. (2010). Managing difficulties for hospitalar accreditation in cardiovascular hospital.
29. Lal, B., Kapoor, D., & Jaimini, M. (2019). A review on analytical method validation and its regulatory perspectives. Journal of Drug Delivery and Therapeutics, 9(2), 501-506.
30. Liu, X., Dai, Q., & Jiang, Y. (2014). Proficiency testing experience with College of American Pathologists' programs at a University Hospital in China From 2007 to 2011. Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, 138(1), 114-120.
31. MacNeil, J. D. (2012). Analytical difficulties facing today's regulatory laboratories: issues in method validation. Drug Testing and Analysis, 4(S1), 17-24.
32. Makokha, E. P., Ondondo, R. O., Kimani, D. K., Gachuki, T., Basiye, F., Njeru, M., ... & Mwangi, J. (2022). Enhancing accreditation outcomes for medical laboratories on the Strengthening Laboratory Management Toward Accreditation programme in Kenya via a rapid results initiative. African Journal of Laboratory Medicine, 11(1), 1-8.
33. Manickam, T. S., & Ankanagari, S. (2015). Evaluation of quality management systems implementation in medical diagnostic laboratories benchmarked for accreditation. Journal of Medical Laboratory and Diagnosis, 6(5), 27-35.
34. McGrowder, D., Tucker, D., Miller, F. G., Anderson, M., Vaz, K. A., & Anderson-Jackson, L. (2021). Accreditation of Medical Laboratories: Challenges and Opportunities. Handbook of Research on Modern Educational Technologies, Applications, and Management, 600-616.
35. Meier, F. A., Souers, R. J., Howanitz, P. J., Tworek, J. A., Perrotta, P. L., Nakhleh, R. E., ... & Jones, B. A. (2015). Seven Q-Tracks monitors of laboratory quality drive general performance improvement: experience from the College of American Pathologists Q-Tracks program 1999–2011. Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, 139(6), 762-775.
36. Mesfin, E. A., Taye, B., Belay, G., Ashenafi, A., & Girma, V. (2017). Factors affecting quality of laboratory services in public and private health facilities in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Ejifcc, 28(3), 205.
37. Middlebrook, K. (2017). Do accredited laboratories perform better in proficiency testing than non-accredited laboratories?. Accreditation and Quality Assurance, 22(3), 111-117.
38. Mishra, P., Pandey, C. M., Singh, U., Gupta, A., Sahu, C., & Keshri, A. (2019). Descriptive statistics and normality tests for statistical data. Annals of cardiac anaesthesia, 22(1), 67.
39. Nakhleh, R. E., Nosé, V., Colasacco, C., Fatheree, L. A., Lillemoe, T. J., McCrory, D. C., ... & Renshaw, A. A. (2016). Interpretive diagnostic error reduction in surgical pathology and cytology: guideline from the College of American Pathologists Pathology and Laboratory Quality Center and the Association of Directors of Anatomic and Surgical Pathology. Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, 140(1), 29-40.
40. Ngo, A., Gandhi, P., & Miller, W. G. (2017). Frequency that laboratory tests influence medical decisions. The Journal of Applied Laboratory Medicine, 1(4), 410-414.
41. O'Leary, D. S. (2000). Accreditation's role in reducing medical errors: Accreditors can provide some leadership, but they can't do it on their own. BMJ, 320(7237), 727-728.
42. Olver, P., Bohn, M. K., & Adeli, K. (2023). Central role of laboratory medicine in public health and patient care. Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (CCLM), 61(4), 666-673.
43. Peris‐Vicente, J., Esteve‐Romero, J., & Carda‐Broch, S. (2015). Validation of analytical methods based on chromatographic techniques: An overview. Analytical separation science, 1757-1808.
44. Perkins, I. U. (2016). Error disclosure in pathology and laboratory medicine: a review of the literature. AMA journal of ethics, 18(8), 809-816.
45. Peter, T. F., Rotz, P. D., Blair, D. H., Khine, A. A., Freeman, R. R., & Murtagh, M. M. (2010). Impact of laboratory accreditation on patient care and the health system. American journal of clinical pathology, 134(4), 550-555.
46. Plebani, M. (2015). Clinical laboratories: production industry or medical services?. Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (CCLM), 53(7), 995-1004.
47. Plebani, M. (2018). System-related and cognitive errors in laboratory medicine. Diagnosis, 5(4), 191-196.
48. Rietveld, T., & van Hout, R. (2017). The paired t test and beyond: Recommendations for testing the central tendencies of two paired samples in research on speech, language and hearing pathology. Journal of communication disorders, 69, 44-57.
49. Rodziewicz, T. L., & Hipskind, J. E. (2020). Medical error prevention. StatPearls. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing.
50. Rusanganwa, V., Gahutu, J. B., Evander, M., & Hurtig, A. K. (2019). Clinical referral laboratory personnel’s perception of challenges and strategies for sustaining the laboratory quality management system: a qualitative study in Rwanda. American Journal of Clinical Pathology, 152(6), 725-734.
51. Sainani, K. L. (2016). The value of scatter plots. PM&R, 8(12), 1213-1217.
52. Salehi, Z., & Payravi, H. (2017). Challenges in the implementation accreditation process in the hospitals: a narrative review. Iran Journal of Nursing, 30(106), 23-34.
53. Schneider, F., Maurer, C., & Friedberg, R.C. (2017). International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 15189. Annals of Laboratory Medicine, 37, 365 - 370.
54. Schultze, A. E., & Irizarry, A. R. (2017). Recognizing and reducing analytical errors and sources of variation in clinical pathology data in safety assessment studies. Toxicologic pathology, 45(2), 281-287.
55. Sciacovelli, L., Secchiero, S., Zardo, L., & Plebani, M. (2010). The role of the external quality assessment. Biochemia Medica, 20(2), 160-164.
56. Scott, E. M., Naysmith, P., & Cook, G. T. (2018). Why do we need 14C inter-comparisons?: The Glasgow-14C inter-comparison series, a reflection over 30 years. Quaternary Geochronology, 43, 72-82.
57. Sayem, M. A., Taslima, N., Sidhu, G. S., & Ferry, J. W. (2024). A QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF HEALTHCARE FRAUD AND UTILIZATION OF AI FOR MITIGATION. International journal of business and management sciences, 4(07), 13-36.
58. Shabir, G. A., John Lough, W., Arain, S. A., & Bradshaw, T. K. (2007). Evaluation and application of best practice in analytical method validation. Journal of liquid chromatography & related technologies, 30(3), 311-333.
59. Sharp, S. E., & Elder, B. L. (2004). Competency assessment in the clinical microbiology laboratory. Clinical microbiology reviews, 17(3), 681-694.
60. Shojania, K. G., & Dixon-Woods, M. (2017). Estimating deaths due to medical error: the ongoing controversy and why it matters. BMJ Quality & Safety, 26(5), 423-428.
61. Tennant, R., Mohammed, M. A., Coleman, J. J., & Martin, U. (2007). Monitoring patients using control charts: a systematic review. International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 19(4), 187-194.
62. Vance, G. H. (2011). College of American Pathologists proposal for the oversight of laboratory-developed tests. Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine, 135(11), 1432-1435.
63. Wu, A. W., & Steckelberg, R. C. (2012). Medical error, incident investigation and the second victim: doing better but feeling worse?. BMJ quality & safety, 21(4), 267-270.
64. Ying Li, H., Yang, Y. C., Huang, W. F., Li, Y. F., Song, P., Chen, L., & Lan, Y. (2014). Reduction of preanalytical errors in laboratory by establishment and application of training system. Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 7(4), 258-262.
65. Zhu, H., You, X., & Liu, S. (2019). Multiple ant colony optimization based on pearson correlation coefficient. Ieee Access, 7, 61628-61638.
66. Zima, T. (2017). Accreditation of medical Laboratories–system, process, benefits for labs. Journal of medical biochemistry, 36(3), 231.
2. Abhijith, D., Kusuma, K. S., & Suma, M. N. (2021). Laboratory accreditation and customer satisfaction. APIK Journal of Internal Medicine, 9(1), 25-28.
3. Abu Amero, K. K. (2002). Overview of the laboratory accreditation programme of the College of American Pathologists. EMHJ-Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal, 8 (4-5), 654-663, 2002.
4. Al Kuwaiti, A., & Al Muhanna, F. A. (2019). Challenges facing healthcare leadership in attaining accreditation of teaching hospitals. Leadership in Health Services, 32(2), 170-181.
5. Andiric, L. R., Chavez, L. A., Johnson, M., Landgraf, K., & Milner, D. A. (2018). Strengthening laboratory management toward accreditation, a model program for pathology laboratory improvement. Clinics in Laboratory Medicine, 38(1), 131-140.
6. Astles, J. R., Stang, H., Alspach, T., Mitchell, G., Gagnon, M., & Bosse, D. (2013). CLIA requirements for proficiency testing: the basics for laboratory professionals. MLO: medical laboratory observer, 45(9), 8-10.
7. Baruch, H. R., Hassan, W., & Mehta, S. (2018). Eight steps to method validation in a clinical diagnostic laboratory. American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science.
8. Boone, D. J. (2000). Assessing laboratory employee competence. Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, 124(2), 190-191.
9. Davis, J., Bittner-Fagan, H., & Savoy, M. (2017). Improving Patient Safety: Common Outpatient Medical Errors. FP essentials, 463, 11-15.
10. Desjardins, M., & Fleming, C. A. (2014). Competency assessment of microbiology medical laboratory technologists in Ontario, Canada. Journal of clinical microbiology, 52(8), 2940-2945.
11. Gay, J. M. (2017, September). Medical error: Knowing (and herding) the elephants. In American Association of Bovine Practitioners Conference Proceedings (pp. 1-7).
12. Girma, M., Desale, A., Hassen, F., Sisay, A., & Tsegaye, A. (2018). Survey-defined and interview-elicited challenges that faced Ethiopian Government Hospital Laboratories as they applied ISO 15189 accreditation standards in resource-constrained settings in 2017. American Journal of Clinical Pathology, 150(4), 303-309.
13. Gosselin, R. C., Marlar, R. A., & Adcock, D. M. (2019). Assessing quality in the specialized hemostasis laboratory: review and critique of external quality assurance (EQA) programs in the US. Ann Blood, 4, 16.
14. Grochau, I. H., Leal, D. K. B., & ten Caten, C. S. (2020). European current landscape in laboratory accreditation. Accreditation and Quality Assurance, 25, 303-310.
15. Gupta, P. C. (2015). Method validation of analytical procedures. Pharma Tutor, 3(1), 32-39.
16. Halim, A. B. (2013). Proficiency testing for monitoring global laboratory performance and identifying discordance. Laboratory Medicine, 44(1), e19-e30.
17. Harada, S., & Mackinnon, A. C. (2023). Navigating Next-Generation Sequencing Laboratory Developed Tests: A Critical Look at Proficiency Testing, US Food and Drug Administration Regulations, and Clinical Laboratory Performance. Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine.
18. Hirano, A., & Ohno, H. (2015). Utilization of CAP Survey, Based on Questionnaire Results from Survey Participants. Rinsho byori. The Japanese Journal of Clinical Pathology, 63(8), 934-946.
19. Ho, B. (2004). Practical Application of ISO 15189 by Accreditation Bodies-: A comparison with ISO/IEC 17025. EJIFCC, 15(4), 128.
20. Hoeltge, G. A. (2017). Accreditation of individualized quality control plans by the college of American pathologists. Clinics in Laboratory Medicine, 37(1), 151-162.
21. Hoeltge, G. A., Phillips, M. G., Styer, P. E., & Mockridge, P. (2005). Detection and correction of systematic laboratory problems by analysis of clustered proficiency testing failures. Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine, 129(2), 186-189.
22. Howanitz, P. J. (2005). Errors in laboratory medicine: practical lessons to improve patient safety. Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, 129(10), 1252-1261.
23. Ibrahim, F., Dosoo, D., Kronmann, K. C., Ouedraogo, I., Anyorigiya, T., Abdul, H., ... & Koram, K. (2012). Good clinical laboratory practices improved proficiency testing performance at clinical trials centers in Ghana and Burkina Faso. PLoS One, 7(6), e39098.
24. Indrayanto, G. (2022). The importance of method validation in herbal drug research. Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, 214, 114735.
25. Kaur, P., Stoltzfus, J., & Yellapu, V. (2018). Descriptive statistics. International Journal of Academic Medicine, 4(1), 60-63.
26. Kavsak, P. A., Clark, L., Arnoldo, S., Lou, A., Shea, J. L., Eintracht, S., ... & Jaffe, A. S. (2023). Analytic result variation for high-sensitivity cardiac troponin: Interpretation and consequences. Canadian Journal of Cardiology.
27. Kels, B. D., & Grant-Kels, J. M. (2012). The spectrum of medical errors: when patients sue. International journal of general medicine, 613-619.
28. Kobayashi, R. M., & Ayoub, A. C. (2010). Managing difficulties for hospitalar accreditation in cardiovascular hospital.
29. Lal, B., Kapoor, D., & Jaimini, M. (2019). A review on analytical method validation and its regulatory perspectives. Journal of Drug Delivery and Therapeutics, 9(2), 501-506.
30. Liu, X., Dai, Q., & Jiang, Y. (2014). Proficiency testing experience with College of American Pathologists' programs at a University Hospital in China From 2007 to 2011. Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, 138(1), 114-120.
31. MacNeil, J. D. (2012). Analytical difficulties facing today's regulatory laboratories: issues in method validation. Drug Testing and Analysis, 4(S1), 17-24.
32. Makokha, E. P., Ondondo, R. O., Kimani, D. K., Gachuki, T., Basiye, F., Njeru, M., ... & Mwangi, J. (2022). Enhancing accreditation outcomes for medical laboratories on the Strengthening Laboratory Management Toward Accreditation programme in Kenya via a rapid results initiative. African Journal of Laboratory Medicine, 11(1), 1-8.
33. Manickam, T. S., & Ankanagari, S. (2015). Evaluation of quality management systems implementation in medical diagnostic laboratories benchmarked for accreditation. Journal of Medical Laboratory and Diagnosis, 6(5), 27-35.
34. McGrowder, D., Tucker, D., Miller, F. G., Anderson, M., Vaz, K. A., & Anderson-Jackson, L. (2021). Accreditation of Medical Laboratories: Challenges and Opportunities. Handbook of Research on Modern Educational Technologies, Applications, and Management, 600-616.
35. Meier, F. A., Souers, R. J., Howanitz, P. J., Tworek, J. A., Perrotta, P. L., Nakhleh, R. E., ... & Jones, B. A. (2015). Seven Q-Tracks monitors of laboratory quality drive general performance improvement: experience from the College of American Pathologists Q-Tracks program 1999–2011. Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, 139(6), 762-775.
36. Mesfin, E. A., Taye, B., Belay, G., Ashenafi, A., & Girma, V. (2017). Factors affecting quality of laboratory services in public and private health facilities in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Ejifcc, 28(3), 205.
37. Middlebrook, K. (2017). Do accredited laboratories perform better in proficiency testing than non-accredited laboratories?. Accreditation and Quality Assurance, 22(3), 111-117.
38. Mishra, P., Pandey, C. M., Singh, U., Gupta, A., Sahu, C., & Keshri, A. (2019). Descriptive statistics and normality tests for statistical data. Annals of cardiac anaesthesia, 22(1), 67.
39. Nakhleh, R. E., Nosé, V., Colasacco, C., Fatheree, L. A., Lillemoe, T. J., McCrory, D. C., ... & Renshaw, A. A. (2016). Interpretive diagnostic error reduction in surgical pathology and cytology: guideline from the College of American Pathologists Pathology and Laboratory Quality Center and the Association of Directors of Anatomic and Surgical Pathology. Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, 140(1), 29-40.
40. Ngo, A., Gandhi, P., & Miller, W. G. (2017). Frequency that laboratory tests influence medical decisions. The Journal of Applied Laboratory Medicine, 1(4), 410-414.
41. O'Leary, D. S. (2000). Accreditation's role in reducing medical errors: Accreditors can provide some leadership, but they can't do it on their own. BMJ, 320(7237), 727-728.
42. Olver, P., Bohn, M. K., & Adeli, K. (2023). Central role of laboratory medicine in public health and patient care. Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (CCLM), 61(4), 666-673.
43. Peris‐Vicente, J., Esteve‐Romero, J., & Carda‐Broch, S. (2015). Validation of analytical methods based on chromatographic techniques: An overview. Analytical separation science, 1757-1808.
44. Perkins, I. U. (2016). Error disclosure in pathology and laboratory medicine: a review of the literature. AMA journal of ethics, 18(8), 809-816.
45. Peter, T. F., Rotz, P. D., Blair, D. H., Khine, A. A., Freeman, R. R., & Murtagh, M. M. (2010). Impact of laboratory accreditation on patient care and the health system. American journal of clinical pathology, 134(4), 550-555.
46. Plebani, M. (2015). Clinical laboratories: production industry or medical services?. Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (CCLM), 53(7), 995-1004.
47. Plebani, M. (2018). System-related and cognitive errors in laboratory medicine. Diagnosis, 5(4), 191-196.
48. Rietveld, T., & van Hout, R. (2017). The paired t test and beyond: Recommendations for testing the central tendencies of two paired samples in research on speech, language and hearing pathology. Journal of communication disorders, 69, 44-57.
49. Rodziewicz, T. L., & Hipskind, J. E. (2020). Medical error prevention. StatPearls. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing.
50. Rusanganwa, V., Gahutu, J. B., Evander, M., & Hurtig, A. K. (2019). Clinical referral laboratory personnel’s perception of challenges and strategies for sustaining the laboratory quality management system: a qualitative study in Rwanda. American Journal of Clinical Pathology, 152(6), 725-734.
51. Sainani, K. L. (2016). The value of scatter plots. PM&R, 8(12), 1213-1217.
52. Salehi, Z., & Payravi, H. (2017). Challenges in the implementation accreditation process in the hospitals: a narrative review. Iran Journal of Nursing, 30(106), 23-34.
53. Schneider, F., Maurer, C., & Friedberg, R.C. (2017). International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 15189. Annals of Laboratory Medicine, 37, 365 - 370.
54. Schultze, A. E., & Irizarry, A. R. (2017). Recognizing and reducing analytical errors and sources of variation in clinical pathology data in safety assessment studies. Toxicologic pathology, 45(2), 281-287.
55. Sciacovelli, L., Secchiero, S., Zardo, L., & Plebani, M. (2010). The role of the external quality assessment. Biochemia Medica, 20(2), 160-164.
56. Scott, E. M., Naysmith, P., & Cook, G. T. (2018). Why do we need 14C inter-comparisons?: The Glasgow-14C inter-comparison series, a reflection over 30 years. Quaternary Geochronology, 43, 72-82.
57. Sayem, M. A., Taslima, N., Sidhu, G. S., & Ferry, J. W. (2024). A QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF HEALTHCARE FRAUD AND UTILIZATION OF AI FOR MITIGATION. International journal of business and management sciences, 4(07), 13-36.
58. Shabir, G. A., John Lough, W., Arain, S. A., & Bradshaw, T. K. (2007). Evaluation and application of best practice in analytical method validation. Journal of liquid chromatography & related technologies, 30(3), 311-333.
59. Sharp, S. E., & Elder, B. L. (2004). Competency assessment in the clinical microbiology laboratory. Clinical microbiology reviews, 17(3), 681-694.
60. Shojania, K. G., & Dixon-Woods, M. (2017). Estimating deaths due to medical error: the ongoing controversy and why it matters. BMJ Quality & Safety, 26(5), 423-428.
61. Tennant, R., Mohammed, M. A., Coleman, J. J., & Martin, U. (2007). Monitoring patients using control charts: a systematic review. International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 19(4), 187-194.
62. Vance, G. H. (2011). College of American Pathologists proposal for the oversight of laboratory-developed tests. Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine, 135(11), 1432-1435.
63. Wu, A. W., & Steckelberg, R. C. (2012). Medical error, incident investigation and the second victim: doing better but feeling worse?. BMJ quality & safety, 21(4), 267-270.
64. Ying Li, H., Yang, Y. C., Huang, W. F., Li, Y. F., Song, P., Chen, L., & Lan, Y. (2014). Reduction of preanalytical errors in laboratory by establishment and application of training system. Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 7(4), 258-262.
65. Zhu, H., You, X., & Liu, S. (2019). Multiple ant colony optimization based on pearson correlation coefficient. Ieee Access, 7, 61628-61638.
66. Zima, T. (2017). Accreditation of medical Laboratories–system, process, benefits for labs. Journal of medical biochemistry, 36(3), 231.
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Author Biographies
Aamna Tanveer Khan
Quality Executive, Institute of Quality and Technology Management, University of the Punjab, Pakistan.
Nadeem Ul Hassan Khan
Student, Institute of Quality and Technology Management, University of the Punjab, Pakistan.
Amna Mehmood
uality Officer, Chughtai Healthcare, Pakistan.
Asma Nasir
Consultant Haematologist, Chughtai Institute of Pathology, Pakistan
Muhammad Sajjad
CEO Gitchia Institute of Global Certification, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Muhammad Yaqoob Hassan
Technical Supervisor Hematology, Chughtai Healthcare, Pakistan.
Hakeem-ur-Rehman
Assistant Professor, Institute of Quality and Technology Management, University of the Punjab, Pakistan.
Muhammad Sohail
Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Laboratory Technology, Riphah College of Rehab. & Allied Health Sciences
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MEASURING EXCELLENCE: COLLEGE OF AMERICAN PATHOLOGISTS LABORATORY ACCREDITATION PROGRAM AND QUANTITATIVE PROFICIENCY TESTING OUTCOMES. (2024). Journal of Population Therapeutics and Clinical Pharmacology, 31(8), 1829-1846. https://doi.org/10.53555/a3kf3p92