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SI units in clinical pathology. 1976

N Carter

By now, most doctors in Australia will have had some experience with the new SI units which are being used for pathology test results, especially chemical pathology. While the usage of SI units has spread rapidly through public hospitals in Australia, spread in the non-hospital sector has been slower. However, the change will occur, and so the following is presented to assist general practitioners to understand the reasons for the change, and to interpret results expressed in the new system.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D008792	Metric System	A system of units used in scientific work throughout the world and employed in general commercial transactions and engineering applications. Its units of length, time, and mass are the meter, second, and kilogram respectively, or decimal multiples and submultiples thereof. ( McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 6th ed)	Metric Systems,System, Metric,Systems, Metric
D001774	Blood Chemical Analysis	An examination of chemicals in the blood.	Analysis, Blood Chemical,Chemical Analysis, Blood,Analyses, Blood Chemical,Blood Chemical Analyses,Chemical Analyses, Blood
D014894	Weights and Measures	Measuring and weighing systems and processes.	Measures,Scales,Weights,Measure,Measures and Weights
D019411	Clinical Laboratory Techniques	Techniques used to carry out clinical investigative procedures in the diagnosis and therapy of disease.	Clinical Laboratory Test,Clinical Laboratory Testing,Clinical Laboratory Diagnoses,Clinical Laboratory Testings,Clinical Laboratory Tests,Diagnoses and Laboratory Examinations,Diagnosis, Laboratory,Laboratory Diagnosis,Laboratory Examinations and Diagnoses,Laboratory Techniques, Clinical,Clinical Laboratory Technique,Diagnose, Clinical Laboratory,Laboratory Diagnoses,Laboratory Technique, Clinical,Laboratory Test, Clinical,Laboratory Testing, Clinical,Technique, Clinical Laboratory,Test, Clinical Laboratory,Testing, Clinical Laboratory