Don't know what I was thinking. I knew that.
Guess I've been out of the trenches too long.
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Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 7:52 PM
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Subject: Re: International Units
Jonathan Showalter and Martin A. Morrison
"International Units" is a particular unit of measurement as also
are "cubic centimeters" and "grams", both of which are different than IU.
"Internatioal Units" has nothing to do with "Imperial or Metric". Data
Element 355 is specified as "Code specifying the units in which a value
is being expressed, or manner in which a measurement has been taken."
Obviously, neither "Metric" nor "Imperial" properly fit the definition
for DE 355. You can see "IU" as the unit of measure on many vitamins.
Rather, here is a dictionary definition for IU:
International Unit: pharm. 1. an internationally agreed
upon standard, as measured by bioassay, to which samples of a
substance, as a drug or hormone, are compared to ascertain their
relative potency. 2. the particular quantity of such a
substance, which causes a specific biological effect. Abbr. IU
[1920-1925] - from The Random House Dictionary of the English
Language - Second Edition.
If this definition is clearer, perhaps you would like to submit a
data maintenance item to X12 to change the expanded definition for code
F2 in X12 data element 355.
Peter Randlev
Rhinebeck, New York 12572
X12 IM
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