title: Accuracy in interlaboratory quality control programs.
abstract: Interlaboratory quality control programs provide an important contribution to achieving and maintaining accuracy in clinical laboratories. The various strategies for providing accurate target values in the two principal types of interlaboratory programs are reviewed.
mesh_terms: D007753:Laboratories / Q000592:standards*; D010336:Pathology; D011786:Quality Control; D012015:Reference Standards; D012955:Societies, Medical; D014481:United States