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The operation, quality and costs of a district hospital laboratory service in Malawi

Mundy et al., 2003

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1484425948639623917
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Mundy C
Bates I
Nkhomal W
Floyd K
Kadewele G
Ngwira M
Khuwi A
Squire S
Gilks C
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Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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Laboratory services are run down in many low-income countries, severely constraining their input to patient care and disease surveillance. There are few data about the quality and cost of individual components of the laboratory service in poorer countries, yet this information is …
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