Guest posting: Dr Poyap Rooney, Clinical Chemist, Port Moresby General Hospital, PNG.
Summary
There are many Home Glucose Monitoring Devices on the market. HGMD are now accepted by the major diabetes organisations as an integral part of the effective treatment of diabetes, especially of type 1 diabetes mellitus. Important treatment decisions are made based on the results that they produce and therefore their analytical performance in terms of their analytical accuracy is of utmost importance.
The treatment of diabetics can be compromised by issues of HGMDs inaccuracies and the best way to achieve this is to ensure this is to use the most accurate HGMDs on the market by using only those HGMD brands which meet the minimum strict standards requirements set by the International Standards Organisation (ISO).
It is also important that operators of these HGMDs (usually the patients themselves) use the devices as recommended by their manufacturers and run the recommended quality controls.
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