News tagged with calibration

Calibration

Calibration is a comparison between measurements – one of known magnitude or correctness made or set with one device and another measurement made in as similar a way as possible with a second device.

The device with the known or assigned correctness is called the standard. The second device is the unit under test, test instrument, or any of several other names for the device being calibrated.

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Spanish registry IDs predictors of low back pain improvement

(HealthDay)—For patients with acute or chronic low back pain (LBP), predictors have been identified for clinically relevant improvements in LBP, pain down the leg (LP), and disability at three months, according ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Dec 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

More work needed on models to predict risk of chronic kidney disease

Models used for predicting the likelihood of individuals developing chronic kidney disease and for predicting disease progression in people who already have the condition are useful tools but not yet robust enough to help ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Nov 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

French trial opens on cancer radiation scandal

Two doctors and a radiophysicist went on trial Monday on manslaughter charges arising from radiation overdoses given to nearly 450 cancer patients in a French hospital.

Cancer created Sep 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2