The National Clinical and Public Health Laboratory Survey--1977

In May 1976, the Laboratory Management Consultation Office, Center for Disease Control, conducted a survey of the clinical and public health laboratories in the U.S.A. in order to update data from a 1971 census of clinical and public health laboratories. The 1971 data were published in the January/February 1973 issue of Cadence of the Clinical Laboratory. The combined data from the 1971 census and the 1976 survey provide an extensive data base which will allow long-range planning toward improving laboratory service in the U.S.A.