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Lessons Learnt from a Five-Year Experience of the Groupe de Recherche Action en Santé (GRAS) Clinical Laboratory, Burkina Faso, in Participating to an External Proficiency Testing (EPT) Programme

2025-09-18

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<h4>Background: </h4> Clinical research lab is a key component of the conduct of clinical studies. Enrolment, follow up of patients is mainly based on the diagnosis skills of lab technicians and automates performance. To overcome this challenge, since 2020, as part of the quality assurance of its lab research activities, GRAS has registered with the College of American Pathologists (CAP) and the Clinical Laborator...

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