Title: examinational compatibility
Long Title: IUPAC Gold Book - examinational compatibility
DOI: 10.1351/goldbook.10018
Status: current

Definition
Property of a set of examination results for a specified examinand of a given kind-of-nominal-property that have overlapping nominal property value sets.

Notes
1) Two compatible examination results can be identical.
2) The definition of this concept is not analogous to that of "metrological compatibility of measurement results" in the VIM.

Example
Let the nominal property value set for "Patient—Urine; colour(proc.)" be {red, dark red}. "Red" is a compatible examination result because it is contained within the nominal property value set. "Black" and "white" are not compatible as they do not belong to the nominal property value set.

Related Terms
- examinand: https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/09985
- examination results: https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/09999
- kind-of-nominal-property: https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/09980
- nominal property value sets: https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/09997

Source
- PAC, 2018, 90, 913. 'Vocabulary on nominal property, examination, and related concepts for clinical laboratory sciences (IFCC-IUPAC Recommendations 2017)' on page 928 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2011-0613)

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Citation: Citation: 'examinational compatibility' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.10018
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