Dear Craig
We've been providing serum based material for our Diabetes clinic for the
last 3 years. We use sterile calf serum spiked with glucose - no
preservative is added. Azide is not suitable for all meters. We then
analyse the material on all the meters that are likely to be seen in our
clinic and issue meter target values as mean +/ 10%. We have about 8
different meters. The material is aliquotted and stored frozen. The
diabetes nurse takes an aliquot from the freezer per clinic. It seems to
work quite well. We have also been providing the same service to one of our
local GPs for his diabetic clinic.
Regards
Annette
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Craig Webster [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 27 June 2002 16:19
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Checking patients glucose meters
>
> Our diabetes department has asked me if I could come up with a quality
> control solution they could use to check patients glucose meters when they
> come to clinic.
> My simple plan to create a glucose solution with some azide and then
> generate a range using laboratory analysers and some glucose meters. Do I
> need to get more complicated?
> Does anyone else provide this service and if so what do you do?
> Regards
> Craig Webster
> Nottingham City Hospital
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