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Categorising specimen referral delays for CD4 testing: How inter-laboratory distances and travel times impact turn-around time across a national laboratory service in South Africa

BACKGROUND: The South African National Health Laboratory Service provides laboratory services for public sector health facilities, utilising a tiered laboratory model to refer samples for CD4 testing from 255 source laboratories into 43 testing laboratories. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to d...

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Autores principales: Cassim, Naseem, Coetzee, Lindi M., Glencross, Deborah K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: AOSIS 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7756670/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33392053
http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/ajlm.v9i1.1120