Two separate issues there:
1 Should this change take place at all?
2 Should you keep reporting locally in old units to a system that isn't yet capable of managing the change?
1 Yes
2 Are "they" committed to changing it it so it can, or not?
Jonathan
On 23 Sep 2011, at 17:19, Sharpe, Peter wrote:
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> I attended the EASD (European Association for the Study of Diabetes) meeting last week. Not one mention was made of IFCC HbA1c. All of the oral and poster presentations gave DCCT% results only.
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> So are we really all ready to move to IFCC reporting next week? Our Trust Diabetes electronic data-base cannot yet accept IFCC results. We are converting our DCCT results from the HbA1c analyser to IFCC using the standard formula.
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> This whole process has worked out very badly indeed.
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> Best wishes
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