Fig. 1. Characteristics of candidate and enrolled clinical laboratories. (A) Geographic distribution and type of candidate clinical laboratories eligible for the survey. (B) Proportion of clinical laboratories that responded to the survey according to the type of healthcare facility. (C) Boxplot of the result submission rate (percentage of quality indicators that a laboratory could submit results to) according to the classification of clinical laboratories (tertiary hospital, general hospital, and referral laboratory). In each box, “x” marks denote the mean values, horizontal center lines denote the median values, boxes denote the interquartile ranges, and horizontal lines at each end of the whiskers denote the minimum and maximum values. No significant difference was observed in the result submission rates among the three categories of clinical laboratories (P>0.05).

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