The basis of effective standardisation is consensus: secured by the diligent accumulation of data, navigating the interdependencies of linked standards, and satisfying multiple direct and indirect interests. Ahead of a scheduled revision, and despite clear potential for harm to patients from inaccurate dosing from infusion pumps, standards makers had not embraced the benefits of best practice flow metrology in device calibration procedures.

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