Metrological traceability - a concept for standardization in laboratory medicine

Clin Chem Lab Med. 2013 May;51(5):953-7. doi: 10.1515/cclm-2012-0710.

Abstract

The concept of measurement traceability provides the most important strategy in achieving standardization in laboratory medicine aimed at equivalent measurement results regardless of the principle of measurement, the method, the actual measurement procedure (test kit) and the laboratory where analyses are carried out.

MeSH terms

  • Chemistry, Clinical / standards
  • Clinical Laboratory Techniques / standards*
  • Clinical Medicine / standards*
  • Reference Standards