Comparative Accuracy of 17 Point-of-Care Glucose Meters.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The accuracy of point-of-care blood glucose (BG) meters is important for the detection of dysglycemia, calculation of insulin doses, and the calibration of continuous glucose monitors. The objective of this study was to compare the accuracy of commercially available glucose meters in a challenging laboratory study using samples with a wide range of reference BG and hemoglobin values.

Methods

Fresh, discarded blood samples from a hospital STAT laboratory were either used without modification, spiked with a glucose solution, or incubated at 37°C to produce 347 samples with an even distribution across reference BG levels from 20 to 440 mg/dl and hemoglobin values from 9 to 16 g/dl. We measured the BG of each sample with 17 different commercially available glucose met

SUBMITTER: Ekhlaspour L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5505415 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature