Terms to Remember for Clinical Chemistry Part 2
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TERMS TO REMEMBER:
- Quality: a feature/characteristic of a product which meets the expected criteria of a consumer (customer).
- Control: a solution that resembles a human sample that is used for QC purposes only
- Standard: a colorless solution with known concentration of substances used for calibration
- Specificity: defined as the ability of a method to measure the analyte of interest ONLY.
- Sensitivity: defined as the ability of a method to measure analytes even at its lowest concentration
- Accuracy: nearness of measured value to that of the target value
- Precision: nearness of measured values to each other
