National prevalence survey in Brazil to evaluate the quality of microbiology laboratories: the importance of defining priorities to allocate limited resources Encuesta de prevalencia nacional para evaluar la calidad de los laboratorios de microbiología en el Brasil: importancia de la definición de prioridades para asignar recursos limitados

This report describes a survey of microbiology laboratories (n = 467) serving Brazilian hospitals with >10 intensive care beds and/or involved in the government health care adverse event reporting system. Coordinators were interviewed and laboratories classified as follows: Level 0 (no minimal fu...

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Main Authors: Luciano B. Costa, Maria Regina Alves Cardoso, Consuelo G. Ferreira, Carlos E. Levy, Heder M. Borba, Janaina Sallas, Heiko T. Santana, Rogério S. Lima, Lucia R. Ferraz, Joana D'Arc P. Reis, Leandro Q. Santi, Anna S. Levin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pan American Health Organization 2013-01-01
Series:Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública
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Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1020-49892013000100010