Opened 11 years ago
Last modified 8 months ago
#90 assigned enhancement
*Copies – term used for viral load data
Reported by: | Gunther Schadow | Owned by: | Simon Cox |
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Priority: | major | Milestone: | |
Component: | help | Keywords: | |
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Description
Claire Marie West (clairemwest) proposed in #69 to add Copies – term used for viral load data
Change History (6)
comment:1 Changed 11 years ago by
comment:2 Changed 10 years ago by
This one I would also "just do" but I am concerned about the lack of a good definition. Don't want to do anything that is just wrong. And because it is used across the board in PCR analysis, it needs to be right when we put it in. So holding it back, leaving it open.
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Component: | → help |
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Owner: | set to Simon Cox |
Status: | new → assigned |
comment:5 Changed 17 months ago by
Yes, even the Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_load#Measuring has no citation - that is relatively unusual. I guess they all think it is well-known or trivial. But I agree that it is clearly a widely used 'unit' so probably warrants an entry in UCUM. Maybe [copies]
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comment:6 Changed 8 months ago by
Summary: | Copies – term used for viral load data → *Copies – term used for viral load data |
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I have long seen this unit and struggled to find in it anything else but a count-noun, which should not get a unit symbol lest we create units for every thing under the sun. However, it is relevant enough in clinical medicine.
So can we begin by collecting the authoritative literature please?
Is there other normative reference by IFCC for example?