Blood Glucose Monitoring: Necessary and Sufficient?
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Blood glucose monitoring: necessary and sufficient?
In 1971, a salesman first brought an Eyetone, the earliest commercial blood glucose meter to the diabetes clinic at Jacobi Hospital in the Bronx. As a third-year medical student I was fascinated by the technology, but, because it was difficult to use, it was classified as a physician device. Blood glucose meters today are small, virtually pain free, and reasonably accurate. The process of monit...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1932-2968,1932-2968
DOI: 10.1177/193229680700100502