background and objectives: for total analytical error, imprecision (sd) and bias, performance goals for laboratory tests have most often been developed. a total analytical error goal requires that the combination of errors from all sources (random and systematic errors) be within some acceptable limit. materials and methods: fifty vials of sodium and potassium standards (sandos company) were ch...

Karon et al. (1 ) modeled the effects of glucose meter error on insulin dosing errors. They refer to an earlier model that I had pointed out was incomplete (2 ). Although Boyd and Bruns (3 ) agreed with my assessment, the current simulation is, once again, incomplete and the same as the previous simulation. We have reviewed the statistics for glucose meter performance (4 ) and noted that Lawton...