Bedside glucose monitoring: Comparison of performance as studied by the College of American Pathologists Q-Probes program

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 333-338

  Howanitz, Peter J ^a   Jones, Bruce A ^b  

^a UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b ST JOHN HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; GLUCOSE ASSAY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL BED; PATIENT MONITORING; PERFORMANCE;

BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOOD GLUCOSE SELF-MONITORING; EVALUATION STUDIES; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL;

EID: 0030009762     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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