Building Laboratory Capacity to Strengthen Health Systems: The Partners In Health Experience

Clinics in Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 101-117

  Orozco, Juan Daniel ^a   Greenberg, Lauren A ^a   Desai, Ishaan K ^a,b   Anglade, Fabienne ^a,c,d   Ruhangaza, Deogratias ^e   Johnson, Mira ^f   Ivers, Louise C ^a,b,g   Milner, Danny A ^f,h   Farmer, Paul E ^a,b  

^a PARTNERS IN HEALTH   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology   (United States)

^d Centre Department   (Haïti)

^e Butaro Hospital   (Rwanda)

^f American Society for Clinical Pathology   (United States)

^g MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^h BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer care; Diagnostics; Haiti; Health systems strengthening; Partners In Health; Pathology; Rwanda; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY BUILDING; DISEASE BURDEN; HAITI; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH EQUITY; HOSPITAL PURCHASING; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; LABORATORY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RWANDA; STAFF TRAINING; TUBERCULOSIS; CLINICAL LABORATORY SERVICE; NEOPLASM;

CAPACITY BUILDING; CLINICAL LABORATORY SERVICES; HAITI; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PATHOLOGY; RWANDA; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 85039756900     PISSN: 02722712     EISSN: 15579832     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cll.2017.10.008     Document Type: Review

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