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The normal range: it is not normal and it is not a range

The NHS ‘Choose Wisely’ campaign places greater emphasis on the clinician-patient dialogue. Patients are often in receipt of their laboratory data and want to know whether they are normal. But what is meant by normal? Comparator data, to a measured value, are colloquially known as the ‘normal range’...

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Autores principales: Whyte, Martin Brunel, Kelly, Philip
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6352401/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30425140
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/postgradmedj-2018-135983