Editorial: Point-of-care glucose testing in critically ill patients: Visual logistics and a glycemic variability hypothesis

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2841-2843

  Kost, Gerald J ^a   Tran, Nam K ^a   Sifontes, Jorge R ^a   Mecozzi, Dan M ^a   Louie, Richard F ^a   Abad, Victor J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Bandwidth; Discrepant values; Erroneous results; Hypothesis; ISO 15197 guideline; Locally smoothed median absolute difference curve; Outcomes

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; INSULIN;

ACCURACY; ADVERSE OUTCOME; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; EDITORIAL; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INSULIN TREATMENT; MORTALITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; INSTRUMENTATION; INTENSIVE CARE; MONITORING; NOTE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STANDARD; TEST STRIP;

BLOOD GLUCOSE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; REAGENT STRIPS; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 70349656113     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181ad7927     Document Type: Editorial

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