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Explain the hematological implications of under experiment(why did they select the study, abstract,what is the aim, what arethings they tested, what do they want to say conclusion etc) longreport | please dont answer by hand writting!

Majority of clinical decisions are said to be based onlaboratory test results. Therefore, discrepant and unreliablelaboratory results may cause serious consequences for the health ofindividuals and the society. Fifty blood samples were collectedfrom apparently healthy subjects and sent to 3 differentparticipating hospital laboratories designated as A, B and C withinnorthern Nigeria over a ten-week period. The laboratories, allusing standard hematology techniques, undertook Hb estimation,total WBC counts and PCV measurements in an inter-laboratoryquality control assessment. The study revealed that laboratories Band C obtained significantly lower mean values of 13.20 g/dl and13.80 g/dl for hemoglobin respectively compared to 14.60 g/dl fromthe originating laboratory (p<0.01). Meanwhile, the mean WBCvalues for laboratories B and C appeared significantly higher thanthe accurate mean. Two laboratories (B and C) also obtained meanvalues of PCV slightly different from the accurate one whilelaboratory A had similar mean PCV value to the accurate one.Generally, higher variance ratios between laboratories than betweensamples (P<0.01) was observed in hemoglobin estimation and WBCcount, while PCV showed a high variance ratio between samples thanlaboratories. However, the reproducibility of test results ofparticipating laboratories was good.