title: The international system of units (si)and medicine.
abstract: A major international movement is in progress to extend metrication using the International System of Units. Significantly involved is the field of medicine. Extensive changes adopted abroad now appear in foreign medical literature, and physicians in the United States commonly are unprepared to interpret medical information from abroad because the data are reported in unfamiliar terms. The system has broad immediate and future implications to American physicians.
mesh_terms: D007394:International System of Units / Q000592:standards*; D008511:Medicine; D008792:Metric System / Q000592:standards; D010820:Physicians; D014481:United States; D014894:Weights and Measures / Q000592:standards*