Evaluation of a glucose meter against analytical quality specifications for hospital use

Clinica Chimica Acta

Volumn 343, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 217-221

  Dhatt, Gurdeep Singh ^a   Agarwal, Mukesh ^b   Bishawi, Bassam ^a  

^a TAWAM HOSPITAL   (United Arab Emirates)

^b UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Glucometer; Imprecision; Objective quality specifications; Total error

Indexed keywords

OXIDOREDUCTASE; OXYGEN;

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL ERROR; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD GLUCOSE MONITORING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; ELECTRODE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE METER; HEPARINIZATION; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; NURSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

BLOOD GLUCOSE; CHEMISTRY, CLINICAL; EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES, HOSPITAL; HOSPITALS; HUMANS;

ADA; ILEX COOKII;

EID: 2042443796     PISSN: 00098981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cccn.2004.01.021     Document Type: Article

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