Experience with an external quality assessment programme for point-of-care-testing (POCT) devices for the determination of blood glucose

Clinical Laboratory

Volumn 49, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 151-159

  Wood, William Graham ^a   Hanke, Rainer ^a   Meißner, Dieane ^a   Reinauer, Hans ^a  

^a Reference Method Laboratories   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blood; EQAS; External quality assessment surveys; Glucose; Plasma; POCT; Point of care testing; Sample production; Serum; Synthetic materials

Indexed keywords

MACROGOL; STABILIZING AGENT;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BLOOD GLUCOSE MONITORING; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL LABORATORY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ISOTOPE DILUTION ASSAY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MATERIALS TESTING; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REFERENCE VALUE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

AUTOANALYSIS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; GERMANY; HUMANS; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0037278967     PISSN: 14336510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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