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How to Evaluate Glucose Meters

for All Inpatient Settings

Including Acute Care

Point-of-Care glucose testing is pervasive throughout acute care facilities in the USA. Testing is performed on all patient populations from general unit diabetes patients to critically ill patients, with and without a diabetes diagnosis. Acute care patient populations can experience a broad range of dysglycemias and glucose meter accuracy is very important, particularly as patient acuity increases. Numerous published reports indicate current glucose meters may not be accurate enough for certain acute care patient populations. Recently, the FDA has approved new hospital glucose meters with a limitation that the cleared meter "has not been evaluated for use on critically ill patients." Poor meter accuracy in critically ill populations can cause inappropriate insulin doses and other adverse events related to glycemic control. As adverse events and even deaths are still being reported, the need for more accurate technology for bedside testing has become imperative.

This P.A.C.E^®accredited educational seminar will discuss issues surrounding glycemic control of hospitalized patients and how to develop and execute a glucose meter evaluation that meets the specific needs of both general ward and critically ill patients. The program discusses how to evaluate glucose meter accuracy based on patient population variables as well as other considerations including interferences, operator error, positive patient identification, result reporting, training and implementation. The seminar will be based, in part, on more than 70 hospital publications that describe their glucose meter accuracy studies. Topics will include:

Examples of well-designed POC glucose evaluations
Specific factors that can affect glucose meter performance
Glucose meter evaluations scaled to your available resources
Differences, advantages & limitations of laboratory versus clinical evaluations
Review of currently available glucose meter literature
Hospital experiences selecting and transitioning to a new bedside glucose meter

Continuing Education Information

Nova Biomedical is approved as a Provider of continuing education programs in the clinical laboratory sciences by the ASCLS P.A.C.E.® program. This seminar provides 2.5 contact hours for P.A.C.E.® continuing education credits.