Commentary
An essential service of the densitometry unit is the provision of a consultative service to the referring clinician. The consulting service shall be readily available and clinicians shall be able to obtain authoritative advice from the medical specialist or technologist on:

1. The precision and accuracy of methods used in the unit, including in-vivo and in-vitro precision estimates for all scans performed in the unit.
2. The statistical significance of results and their relation to reference intervals. This includes data on the source of the reference interval used for scan interpretation.
3. The scientific basis and the clinical significance of the results.
4. The suitability of the requested procedure to solve the clinical problem in question.
5. Further procedures which may be helpful.
   

On-site medical specialist and medical scientist/engineer supervision is not necessary but the reporting medical specialist must contactable. All reports to be checked by the reporting medical specialist.

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