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Clinical Lab Quality: CMS and Survey Organization Oversight Should Be Strengthened.

July 12, 2006

Washington DC; Government Accountability Office; June 2006. Report no GAO-06-416.

This government report found that the clinical laboratory survey process is flawed, allowing safety requirements to be bypassed.

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