Journal Editors' requirements for full descriptions of laboratory methods need to include information on metrological traceability and analytical specificity.

摘要

With respect to the consensus report from Journal Editors on laboratory methods, I believe that information on the traceability chain and analytical specificity of methods must also be provided, so that the accuracy of results and appropriateness of the units may be assessed. This should help prevent the problem of laboratory tests coming into premature clinical use with firm guidelines before the measurand is properly characterized or standardized. For Type 1 Joint Committee for Traceability in Laboratory Medicine (JCTLM List 1~2) analytes, (unique molecular entities which are identical wherever found), where a complete traceability chain back to an SI (Systeme Internationale) definition of the analyte is possible, 'analytical assays' may be constructed which give method-independent results with SI mass or molar units.