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The medical laboratory results of e.g. a blood test must be interpreted to
give information about a patient's health. To do this the doctor consults
information on normal ranges of such results. Establishing those normal ranges
requires that the diagnostics results from the different laboratories are
comparable and correct. In addition the quality of the individual results has
to be high enough to enable the doctor to make the right decisions.
Standardisation of the methods used in medical laboratories and assuring the
quality of diagnostics results, is a global effort. IRMM has carried out
extensive research to develop and produce suitable reference materials for
validating those methods and calibrating instruments. As a result, over 40
different enzyme and protein reference materials are available, including
those for tumour markers, and markers for infectious diseases and cardiac
damage. Genetic testing introduces new demands for IRMM to respond to.
Reference materials
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Last Update 10/02/2006
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