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Not clear why you would want to do this? It is not something where the speed of POCT has anything particular to contribute, and I would have thought the importance of diagnostic accuracy would far outweigh the slightly quicker result from POCT.
 
Mike
 
 

From: Clinical biochemistry discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Avril Wayte (BCUHB - Patholgy)
Sent: 07 July 2011 10:06
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Subject: Glucose Tolerance Tests

Dear colleagues

As our GPs are being encouraged to undertake more and more oral glucose tolerance tests, more of them are doing the tests in the surgery (following the protocol provided by our laboratory). This morning I took a phone call from one GP who was interested in using POCT glucose meters to obtain the results rather than sending the samples to the laboratory.

 

Apart from the obvious facts of laboratory result vs POCT result, and the issues of capillary sampling, are there any other good reasons why POCT should not be used? Is anyone out there already doing this?

 

Kind regards

 

 

Avril

 

Avril Wayte

Consultant Biochemist

Clinical Chemistry

Ysbyty Gwynedd

Clinical Lead for Biochemistry, BCUHB

 

 

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