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

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...

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Main Authors: Naseem Cassim, Lindi M. Coetzee, Deborah K. Glencross
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AOSIS 2020-12-01
Series:African Journal of Laboratory Medicine
Subjects:
hiv
cluster of differentiation 4
cd4
immune status
inter-laboratory referral
distance
travel time
Online Access:https://ajlmonline.org/index.php/ajlm/article/view/1120

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