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2014 · Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine · paywalled

System accuracy evaluation of systems for point-of-care testing of blood glucose: a comparison of a patient-use system with six professional-use systems

Freckmann et al.

The finding, in our words

A patient-use blood glucose monitoring system achieved accuracy comparable to six professional-use point-of-care systems when capillary samples from 100 subjects were measured by trained staff under standardised conditions, with all seven systems showing 99.5 to 100 per cent of results within ISO 15197:2003 limits. This supports the case that decentralised, patient-centric capillary blood glucose measurement can match professional laboratory-aligned performance when sampling is standardised.

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