It has to be bad science to report any result with undeserved apparent
accuracy.
Further thoughts.
Borderline results will usually induce one or more repeats. The precision
increases enormously with repeats.
Reporting patients' results to one or two decimal places but to EQA to more
(otherwise you can score less well).
Results like GTT. Patients flip from normal to IGT or IGT to DM on the
basis of 0.1mmol/L change in glucose by WHO criteria. Grey area??
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