IUPAC

Update all the ten chapters of the first edition of the Silver Book to integrate recommendations and standards published by IUPAC, IFCC, ISO...

We want to take into account two aspects. The first one is that considerable progress has been made in the harmonization of metrological concepts, definitions and terms. The finalization of the third edition of the International Vocabulary of Metrology – Basic and General Concepts and Associated Terms (VIM) is a good example. The second is that many fields of the clinical sciences have expanded and some new disciplines have appeared necessitating additional subjects based on recommendations published by various national, regional and international bodies. The interrelationships between different disciplines regarding clinical laboratory sciences necessitates a common structure and language for data exchange.

The book will be structured as follows:

• history of recommendations on quantities and units in clinical laboratory sciences
  
• definitions of disciplines applied in the clinical laboratory
  
• conventions and instructions for use 
• fundamental concepts: system, component and entity, process 
• principles and practice of quantities and units 
• requesting, generating, and transmitting clinical laboratory data 
• choice and use of kinds-of-quantity for different analytical purposes 
• kinds-of-quantity of dimension one: SI unit 1 
• kinds-of-quantity of dimension other than one 
• bibliography and indexes
  

* project announcement published in Chem. Int. Nov-Dec 2008