Standard deviation of a lab value

Recently, in light of an abnormal blood sugar, a patient asked me, “but wait, what’s the standard deviation of my blood sugar?”

This was an excellent, highly relevant question — but I couldn’t tell them.  It would be easy to program this, but we have not.

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