Effect of high altitude on blood glucose meter performance

Diabetes Technology and Therapeutics

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 627-635

  Fink, Kenneth S ^a   Christensen, Dale B ^a   Ellsworth, Allan ^a  

^a AGENCY FOR HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; BLOOD GLUCOSE MONITORING; CAPILLARY BLOOD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEVICE; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; MALE; MOUNTAINEERING; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE;

ADULT; ALTITUDE; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOOD GLUCOSE SELF-MONITORING; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOUNTAINEERING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0036410404     PISSN: 15209156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/152091502320798259     Document Type: Article

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