Screening for hypoglycemia at the bedside in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) with the Abbott PCx glucose meter

BMC Pediatrics

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Balion, Cynthia ^a,b   Grey, Vijaylaxmi ^b   Ismaila, Afisi ^b   Blatz, Susan ^a   Seidlitz, Wendy ^a  

^a Hamilton Health Sciences ^*  (United States)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE;

ARTICLE; AUTOANALYZER; BLOOD GLUCOSE METER; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEW BORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; POINT OF CARE TESTING; REFERENCE VALUE; ROC CURVE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

BLOOD GLUCOSE; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; NEONATAL SCREENING; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33845326144     PISSN: 14712431     EISSN: 14712431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2431-6-28     Document Type: Article

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