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Learning objectives
– to understand the need to report on the quality of a
measurement result in addition to the result itself
– to understand the conceptual difference between the error and
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the uncertainty of a result
– to know the document
“Guide to the expression of
uncertainty in measurement” (abbreviated as GUM)
– to understand how to set action limits taking into account
clinical tolerance limits and uncertainties.
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