RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 A method for deriving normal ranges from laboratory specimens applied to uric acid in males
JF Journal of Clinical Pathology
JO J Clin Pathol
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Association of Clinical Pathologists
SP 778
OP 780
DO 10.1136/jcp.23.9.778
VO 23
IS 9
A1 Cook, M. G.
A1 Levell, M. J.
A1 Payne, R. B.
YR 1970
UL http://jcp.bmj.com/content/23/9/778.abstract
AB Plasma specimens from male blood donors gave a normal range for uric acid concentration of 3·3 to 7·5 mg/100 ml. Specimens from male outpatients, which were received in the laboratory for the analysis of urea but not of uric acid and proved to have normal concentrations of urea, showed a positively skewed distribution of values for uric acid from which a `normal range' of 3·2 to 7·6 mg/100 ml was derived. We suggest that specimens from outpatients selected in the way described here may prove to be a convenient source of data for determining the normal range of other substances.