SERODIAGNOSTIC TESTS FOR SYPHILIS IN STATE LABORATORIES

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Abstract
There is an increasing appreciation of the need for a system of gaging the efficiency of performance of the laboratory tests on which the medical profession places major reliance in the diagnosis of syphilis. For the past six years the Committee on Evaluation of Serodiagnostic Tests for Syphilis has interested itself in this field and from time to time has published reports dealing with the standards of performance of tests in the state laboratories. In these publications, however, the identity of the participating laboratories was hidden by the use of code designations. It is realized that this procedure has restricted the usefulness of the material in that it has been impossible for the individual medical man to judge the efficiency of test performances in the laboratory to which his specimens were sent. With the approval of the various state health departments, it is now desired to present the results of

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