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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-7-23
pubmed:abstractText
According to recently issued (UNI CEI EN ISO/IEC 17025, UNI CEI ENV 13005 and prEN ISO 15189) standards, to assure the quality of analytical results and their comparability in time and in different places, testing and clinical laboratories must demonstrate to use validated methods, guarantee the traceability of their measurements and state the measurement uncertainty associated with each result. For some SI quantities, such as the mass, the traceability to SI and the estimate of measurement uncertainty are warranted by established methods. In the clinical laboratory and especially in preventive, environmental and occupational laboratory medicine, specific difficulties arise to warrant the traceability to the mole. On one hand, the whole concept of measurement uncertainty is new in laboratory medicine, on the other hand, its application faces practical difficulties, because of the wideness and the complexity of the analytical repertory, the lack of officially validated methods and matrix-specific reference materials traceable to SI. In this paper we discuss briefly the concept of measurement uncertainty and its meaning in comparison with other parameters used to define the performance of analytical methods. In addition, we describe the procedures recommended by international organisations for estimating measurement uncertainty and interpreting analytical results with an associated measurement uncertainty in comparison with limit values.
pubmed:language
ita
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
1592-7830
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
26
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
102-7
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:articleTitle
[Estimate of uncertainty of measurements in clinical laboratories and in environmental, occupational, and preventive medicine].
pubmed:affiliation
Laboratorio di Biochimica Clinica, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Roma.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, English Abstract