Does home monitoring of blood glucose work in general practice?
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Problems in home monitoring of blood glucose.
Two hundred and forty blood glucose readings were made on 5 Glucochek machines by 2 different operators. The results on all machines correlated poorly with equivalent results from an automatic glucose analyser with major discrepancies at all glucose concentrations. There was a wide gap in performance between the 2 operators. Analysis of variance suggested that errors were not only due to inter-...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1983
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.287.6395.801