For patient with diabetes mellitus is very important know the efficacy of blood glucose home monitoring devices. An important component of diabetes care is self-monitoring blood blucose. The glucometer need to have standard quality control procedure and verified the reading of various glucometer to know the quality of this products. To know the quality of the blood glucose meter is necessary compare the efficacy of several glucose meters with the measurement of a reference laboratory control information. In one study with the betachek test strip and three other common glucometer devices (Glucotrend 2, GlucoMen, and GlucoCare) were used to determine the blood glucose in patient have DM. The result was very interesting in the comparation of this glucometer. The mean measurement of blood glucose was 2 glucometer had the most advantageous results and one no met the ADA criteria of reading within 5% of the laboratory reference results. For patient with diabetes and use glucometer is very important have good reference about the measure accuracy of the blood glucose by the glucometer and make continue control of this device. Remember very high or low level of glucose in the blood can be very dangerous.
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Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Know The Efficacy Of Bloog Glucose Home Monitoring Devices
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