The computerized medical record in gastroenterology: part 3. Numerical laboratory data.
The main difficulty with numerical laboratory data is the risk of ignoring significant results scattered in a multitude of normal results. The universal scale of measure attempts to provide an answer to this problem. It reduces every abnormal value of similar severity to the same number.
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