title: Metrological traceability - a concept for standardization in laboratory medicine.
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.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Clinical Chemistry and Clinical Pharmacology, Sigmund Freud Strasse 25, 53127 Bonn, Germany. Lothar.Siekmann@ukb.uni-bonn.de
authors.forename: Lothar
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Siekmann
mesh_terms: D002624:Chemistry, Clinical / Q000592:standards; D019411:Clinical Laboratory Techniques / Q000592:standards*; D015510:Clinical Medicine / Q000592:standards*; D012015:Reference Standards