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Well said, Jeff Seneviratne, I have also been reading the mailbase on this subject and although I stopped working in laboratories in 2000, (I now work, mainly with other hospital professionals)I am surprised that the change has not yet been made. Our end client is not the patient (although many would think otherwise) but other hospital professionals, medics, nurses, pharmacists, who in general expect laboratory support and training. Since time immemorial doctors and nurses etc. have been a mobile force, moving from hospital to hospital, area to area and region to region, and in my case, and I am sure many others, from country to country. If everyone changed to the consensus reporting, it would be one less problem to deal with. I do not undestand the resistance or the arguments against. I, and am sure many more of you remember changing all the laboratory results over to SI units, and we did not have such sophisticated reporting systems then (preprinted forms with both units and the reference range in the new units). Jeff Aronson, Clinical Pharmacologist in the BMJ in 2002 wrote a small piece on this never ending subject http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/324/7352/1521 It is also worth remembering, (although the majority in Spain still use the Kg for many substances, urea, creatinine, cholesterol, etc, but they are consistent and only use mole units for publishing articles in British Journals) that the recommended SI mass unit for chemical substances is the mole. David Brown Valencia Spain David G Brown Valencia Espaņa Tel 00 34 96 328 7207 mov. 00 34 676064278 e-mail [log in to unmask] http://www.proz.com/pro/56276 ___________________________________________________________ All new Yahoo! Mail "The new Interface is stunning in its simplicity and ease of use." - PC Magazine http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html ------ACB discussion List Information-------- This is an open discussion list for the academic and clinical community working in clinical biochemistry. Please note, archived messages are public and can be viewed via the internet. Views expressed are those of the individual and they are responsible for all message content. ACB Web Site http://www.acb.org.uk List Archives http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/ACB-CLIN-CHEM-GEN.html List Instructions (How to leave etc.) http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/