The reason that I'm not worried about that issue is that it is
unusual for clinicians to go from seeing an assay report to
calculating doses in their heads ... it's much more common to use
standard doses or algorithms that mediate between the two.
Jonathan
On 1 Dec 2006, at 14:12, Williams David G (RLN) City Hospitals
Sunderland - Clinical Scientist wrote:
> Good news then. While I appreciate some of the purists among us may
> pine for
> the mole, I doubt if the likely confusion on the wards and for
> patients will
> do us any good at all.
>
> (Cut to GP surgery "Right then Mrs X, I'm going to prescribe 22.56
> mmol of Y
> and 347 umol of Z for you to be taken twice daily after meals")
>
> David G Williams
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julian Barth [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 01 December 2006 13:44
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Consensus statement on reporting drugs and poisons
>
>
> Dear Colleagues
>
> I have to date had no real responses regading the proprosal that all
> clinical laboratories in the UK report drugs and poisons in MASS SI
> units. I am very pleased to inform you that the Scottish Senior
> Clinical Biochemists Group have recently agreed that all
> laboratoies in
> Scotland will be shanging to mass units.
>
> I assume that the total silence means that there are no objections
> to a
> change in England too, so can we have a discussion about time lines
> for
> a change over?
>
> Yours hopefully
> Julian
>
>
> Julian H Barth MD FRCP FRCPath
> Consultant in Chemical Pathology & Metabolic Medicine
> Department of Clinical Biochemistry & Immunology
> Leeds General Infirmary
> Leeds LS1 3EX
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