Datasets / Certificate of Waiver Laboratory Project


Certificate of Waiver Laboratory Project

Published By U.S. Department of Health & Human Services

Issued over 9 years ago

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Summary

Type of release
a one-off release of a set of related datasets

Data Licence
Not Applicable

Content Licence
Creative Commons CCZero

Verification
automatically awarded

Description

CLIA requires all laboratories that examine materials derived from the human body for diagnosis, prevention, or treatment purposes to be certified by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. For many Americans, the accuracy of clinical laboratory test results can be a life or death matter. By the CLIA law, certificate of waiver (COW) laboratories perform only tests that are determined by FDA or CDC to be so simple that there is little risk of error.