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The effect of unintended shortage in technical resources on the quality of endpoint clinical laboratory diagnosis

  • Fakher Rahim ORCID logo EMAIL logo

Corresponding author: Fakher Rahim, Fellowship in Clinical Research, Ph.D. in Molecular and Laboratory Medicine, Director of the Research Center, School of Health Sciences, Cihan University – Sulaimaniya, Kurdistan Region, Iraq, E-mail:

  1. Research ethics: Not applicable.

  2. Informed consent: Not applicable.

  3. Author contributions: FR has developed the idea and has written the manuscript.

  4. Competing interests: The author states no conflict of interest.

  5. Research funding: None declared.

  6. Data availability: Not applicable.

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Received: 2023-08-07
Accepted: 2023-08-09
Published Online: 2023-08-23
Published in Print: 2024-01-26

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