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118 - Standardization in Laboratory Medicine: activities, goals, and further issues

Autore/i: M. Panteghini

Rivista: RIMeL - IJLaM, Vol. 4, N. 3-S1, 2008 (MAF Servizi srl ed.)

Pagina/e: 118

The standardization of measurements is of high priority in Laboratory Medicine, its purpose being to achieve closer comparability of results obtained using routine analytical systems. In order to achieve standardization, an approach is required that provides reliable transfer of the measurement values from the highest hierarchical level to methods which are routinely used in the clinical laboratories. Such a structure is presented by the reference measurement system, based on the concepts of metrological traceability and a hierarchy of analytical measurement procedures. Since the development of metrologically sound reference systems is a complicated and expensive process, it is clear that the objective of improving standardization in Laboratory Medicine will only be achieved if the problems are dealt with not on a national level but through international cooperation. This was the reason for the creation of the Joint Committee on Traceability in Laboratory Medicine (JCTLM), which has made publicly available a list of ...

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