Capillary glucose meter accuracy and sources of error in the ambulatory setting

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 123, Issue 1310, 2010, Pages 74-85

  Lunt, Helen ^a   Florkowski, Christopher ^b   Bignall, Michael ^c   Budgen, Christopher ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b CANTERBURY HEALTH LABORATORIES   (New Zealand)

^c PHARMAC ^*  (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE;

AMBULATORY MONITORING; ANALYTICAL ERROR; APHERESIS; BLOOD GLUCOSE METER; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD VOLUME; CALIBRATION; CAPILLARY BLOOD; DIABETES CONTROL; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ERYTHROCYTE; GLUCOSE ASSAY; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NEW ZEALAND; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; VENOUS BLOOD; WATER CONTENT;

AMBULATORY CARE; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOOD GLUCOSE SELF-MONITORING; CALIBRATION; CAPILLARIES; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; HUMANS; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VEINS;

EID: 77749260560     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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