Comparative Study Between Blood Glucose Meters in a Maternity Center.

BACKGROUND

Monitoring of diabetes by measuring capillary blood glucose using a glucometer.

OBJECTIVES

To compare the three most used glucose meters in diabetic patients in a maternity and neonatal center in terms of repeatability, accuracy, and stability.

METHODOLOGY

A comparative study on 100 diabetic patients admitted to the various departments of a maternity and neonatal center. For each patient, a capillary measurement was made using each of the three glucometers to be tested (Accucheck, On Call and Bionime) as well as a blood glucose on venous blood, performed in the laboratory using the Siemens X brand plus PLC (reference method). The same sample was used to carry out all measurements.

RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS

The Accucheck brand reader and the On Call brand thus, show a better correlation for open and closed bottles of test strips'storage, compared with the Bionime brand reader. We found that the Accucheck and On Call readers are comparable in terms of reliability of results and are better than the Bionime brand reader. We have found that, first using closed vials give more accurate results for glycemia readers and also, On Call and Accucheck brand readers are more reliable and accurate than the Bionime brand reader.