Evaluating Laboratory Performance on Point-of-Care Glucose Testing with Six Sigma Metric for 151 Institutions in China

Diabetes Technology and Therapeutics

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 745-754

  Fei, Yang ^a   Wang, Wei ^a   He, Falin ^a   Zhong, Kun ^a   Wang, Zhiguo ^a  

^a BEIJING HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BLOOD GLUCOSE METER; BLOOD GLUCOSE MONITORING; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; LABORATORY; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; STANDARDIZATION; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; ANALYSIS; EVALUATION STUDY; HOSPITAL LABORATORY; HUMAN; POINT OF CARE SYSTEM; STANDARDS;

GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL;

BLOOD GLUCOSE; CHINA; HUMANS; LABORATORIES, HOSPITAL; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; POINT-OF-CARE TESTING; QUALITY CONTROL; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84941357835     PISSN: 15209156     EISSN: 15578593     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/dia.2014.0421     Document Type: Article

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