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Neil M. Dunn, MD
Baptist Medical Center San Antonio, Tex

JAMA. 1990;264(3):334-335.

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To the Editor.—

As Chief of Clinical Pathology of a 1200-bed hospital system, I read Dr Kost's¹ article with great interest. I was particularly intrigued by his sentence that states, "Data were converted to Système International [SI] units before statistical analysis." I wonder what proportions of the 92 institutions that responded used SI units, SI units and conventional units, or conventional units only. I think these data would be most enlightening for all of us concerned with communication of laboratory information, as was so aptly summarized in the last paragraph of Dr Lundberg's² accompanying editorial: "to make certain that the information is properly communicated, received, interpreted, and acted on to fulfill our responsibility to the patients we serve." . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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