The purpose of this document is to provide general considerations for the selection and evaluation of clinical chemistry kits in laboratories with limited resources. Separate documents have been developed to provide guidance on experimental procedure, the statistical treatment and interpretation of the data and criteria for acceptable performance of diagnostic kits designed to measure specific analytes.

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