News & Views: Clinical Chemistry Policy on Reporting of Concentration Units

摘要

Since it was introduced in clinical laboratories several decades ago, Le Système International d'Unités, abbreviated as “SI units,” has not gained universal acceptance. Concentrations of analytes in medical centers around the US and in many European countries continue to be reported in the traditional mass units, whereas SI units are routinely used in other parts of the world. In the medical literature, particularly in …