Are physicians' office laboratory results of comparable quality to those produced in other laboratory settings?

MEDICAL laboratories; MEDICAL offices; PATHOLOGICAL laboratories; LABORATORIES -- Law & legislation

Recalls that in 1995, California adopted a bill that brought laboratory laws in line with the 1988 Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments standards for clinical laboratories. Mandate of a study comparing results in physicians' office laboratories (POL) with other settings; Efforts to determine if persons conducting tests in POLs produce accurate test result comparable to those produced by non-POLs; Design; Setting; Results.