Self-monitoring of blood glucose levels requires intensive training for use of meters to obtain reliable and clinically relevant measurements

Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 56-61

  Mohr, Thomas A ^a   Pfützner, Andreas ^a,b   Forst, Senait ^a   Forst, Thomas ^a   Schöndorf, Thomas ^a,c  

^a Institute for Clinical Research and Development   (Germany)

^b University of Applied Science   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blood glucose meters; Diabetes mellitus; Self monitoring BG; SMBG

Indexed keywords

EID: 40249096746     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19322968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/193229680700100110     Document Type: Article

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