Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Medical metrology

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The result was redirect to Metrology. (non-admin closure) Steven Zhang ^{The clock is ticking....} 00:07, 15 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Medical metrology

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Prod contested. No such field. List is a synthesis of measurements made in medicine. Original research. Aside from some 19th century discussions about adopting metric measurements for reporting medical results, there are no publications on "medical metrology". Wtshymanski (talk) 19:45, 7 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Should have been speedy deleted. Truthsort (talk) 20:08, 7 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions. — • Gene93k (talk) 23:48, 7 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

~~Not so fast~~ (Decided on Redirect, see below) The term actually does seem to be in widespread use, see [1] and ~~[2]~~ and [3] for example. It will take me a little longer to find whether there are significant references in independent reliable publications, but "no such field" is simply wrong. --MelanieN (talk) 03:33, 8 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Deleting second example since Wtshymanski finds it unpursuasive. There are other examples. --MelanieN (talk) 14:25, 8 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The article needs to be completely rewritten; metrology appears to be the science of measurement as applied to (particularly) the clinical laboratory, but instead of randomly listing a bunch of things that get measured, the article should be about the systematic study of medical measurement itself. Metrology is "the structured approach to the development and terminology of reference measurement systems which, when implemented, improve the accuracy and comparability of patients' results." [4] Give me a few days, I'll work on it and see if it is salvageable. I'll let you know when/if I think it is in Wikipedia shape. Anyone else who wants to help improve it, feel free. --MelanieN (talk) 03:43, 8 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'd be a little wary of a translation of the calendar of a Chinese university as a representation of standard usage in English, or existence of a discipline of "medical metrology". The first article is talking about coordinate measuring machines used to measure medical devices, not one of the myriad of measurements that the list has now, and not really "medical" - one might as well speak of ambulance maintenance as "medical diesel mechanics". I don't know what professors of medicine call measuring a whole bunch of things, maybe just "science" - but nothing shows a science about the *measuring*, not the *measured*, in a medical-only context. I think it's shaky, though there are those who are quick to question my judgement. --Wtshymanski (talk) 04:02, 8 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to Metrology. After surveying the literature I don't find enough material to establish MEDICAL metrology as a separate discipline from metrology. I may add a sentence or two about medical applications to the Metrology article. The rest of this article isn't worth merging. --MelanieN (talk) 14:38, 8 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for checking into this in detail; I'm glad I didn't miss someone's 10th edition of "The Standard Handbook of Medical Metrology", or something equally massive.--Wtshymanski (talk) 14:44, 8 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to metrology as reasonable possible search term. The metrology article can address medical applications and so forth. Neutrality^talk 20:20, 9 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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