Normative Approaches for Oral Health: Standards, Specifications, and Guidelines.

ABSTRACT: Normative approaches have been developed with the aim of providing high-quality methods and strict criteria that, when applied correctly, lead to reliable results. Standards, specifications, and guidelines are needed to facilitate exchange of goods or information and secure comparability of data derived from different laboratories and sources. They are available along the whole flow from study development to test selection, study conduct, and reporting and are widely used for the evaluation of medical devices, market approval, and harmonization of terms and devices. Standards are developed by specific national and international organizations or by dedicated interest groups, mainly scientists in their respective fields. ISO (International Organization for Standardization) standards are deve

SUBMITTER: Schmalz G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9024015 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature