This issue highlights a key challenge in laboratory medicine: balancing ideal performance goals with real-world regulatory constraints. The main question is how we decide what makes a lab test "good enough." Allowable Total Error (ATE or TEa) ...

Iodine testing in urine samples is available from questhealth. Low levels indicate insufficient iodine intake

Thanks @Peggy Mann, M.S., MT(ASCP), CPP ! I agree, survey is straight forward and touches on an unexplored professionalism topic. Cheers, Joe ------------------------------ Joe Wiencek, PhD, D(ABCC), FADLM Associate Professor of Pathology, Microbiology, ...

Thank you, Bill, good explanation!