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Council on Scientific Affairs

JAMA. 1985;253(17):2553-2554.

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THE AMERICAN Medical Association (AMA) has been an active member of the American National Metric Council (ANMC) for the past five years and has served as secretariat to the Biomedical (later changed to Medicine) Sector Committee. The Council on Scientific Affairs has been kept informed of this liaison activity and has had input in the activities of the ANMC through its own Advisory Panel on SI Units. This Advisory Panel was instrumental in developing the two previous Council on Scientific Affairs reports: Report E (A-78), "Adoption of International System of (SI) Units for Clinical Chemistry," and Report E (A-80), "Progress in Adoption of SI Units."

In 1982, the "Medical and Health Coordinating Group" of ANMC was reorganized to contain ten sector committees, of which the following four are active: Laboratory Medicine Sector Committee, Medical Devices Sector Committee, Medicine Sector Committee, and Professional Journal Sector Committee. Additional sector committees in formation . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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From the Council on Scientific Affairs, Division of Evaluation and Nomenclature, American Medical Association, Chicago.

Footnotes
Report E of the Council of Scientific Affairs, adopted by the House of Delegates of the American Medical Association at the Interim Meeting, December 1984.

This report is not intended to be construed or to serve as a standard of medical care. Standards of medical care are determined on the basis of all of the facts and circumstances involved in an individual case and are subject to change as scientific knowledge and technology advance and patterns of practice evolve. This report reflects the views of scientific experts and reports in the scientific literature as of December 1984.

Reprint requests to Council on Scientific Affairs, Division of Evaluation and Nomenclature, American Medical Association, 535 N Dearborn St, Chicago, IL 60610 (John C. Ballin, PhD).

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