I believe the 40,000 false pos or neg results Adel was referring to was
those arising from interference in immunological based testing only; the
quote was a little out of context on its own.
Rachel
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Subject: Re: Blood tests can often be wrong...
This sounds far too low to me.
1 How many investigations do we think are done each year in the UK?
2 Shall we include errors at the clinical end eg selection and
interpretation?
Once those are answered I think we can calculate some large number using
Plebani's studies.
Jonathan
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> "Blood tests can often be wrong, with up to 40,000 tests every year in
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