The impact of measurement uncertainty on the uncertainty of ordinal medical scores based on continuous quantitative laboratory results

Clin Chem Lab Med. 2021 Mar 25;59(8):e309-e312. doi: 10.1515/cclm-2020-1890. Print 2021 Jul 27.

Authors

Marith van Schrojenstein Lantman^{1

2

3}, Marc H M Thelen^{1

2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Laboratory Medicine, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
² Laboratory for Clinical Chemistry, Part of Result Laboratorium, Amphia Hospital, Breda, The Netherlands.
³ SKML, Organisation for Quality Assurance of Medical Laboratory Diagnostics, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

PMID: 33761579
DOI: 10.1515/cclm-2020-1890

No abstract available

Keywords: clinical-decision making; measurement uncertainty; medical algorithm.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Clinical Decision-Making
Decision Making
Humans
Laboratories*
Uncertainty