Efficacy of feedback from quarterly laboratory comparison in maintaining quality of a hospital capillary blood glucose monitoring program

Diabetes Care

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 168-170

  Jones, Helen E ^a,c   Cleave, Barbara ^a   Zinman, Bernard ^a   Szalai, John Paul ^b   Nichol, Heather L ^a   Hoffman, Barry R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD GLUCOSE MONITORING; CAPILLARY BLOOD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NURSE; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

EID: 0030071546     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/diacare.19.2.168     Document Type: Article

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