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Sigma metric or defects per million opportunities (DPMO): the performance of clinical laboratories should be evaluated by the Sigma metrics at decimal level with DPMOs

  • Abdurrahman Coskun EMAIL logo , Wytze P. Oosterhuis , Mustafa Serteser and Ibrahim Unsal

Corresponding author: Abdurrahman Coskun, MD, School of Medicine, Department of Medical Biochemistry, Acibadem University, Istanbul, Turkey, E-mail:

  1. Author contributions: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.

  2. Research funding: None declared.

  3. Employment or leadership: None declared.

  4. Honorarium: None declared.

  5. Competing interests: The funding organization(s) played no role in the study design; in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; or in the decision to submit the report for publication.

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Received: 2015-12-10
Accepted: 2015-12-11
Published Online: 2016-1-13
Published in Print: 2016-8-1

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