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Blood Glucose Monitor Quality Control Tests

The document discusses quality control tests for blood glucose monitors, including using control solutions with each new box of test strips and when results seem unusual, and comparing monitor readings to lab test results within a 15% range to ensure accuracy. If a monitor is not working properly, the manufacturer should be contacted.

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Blood Glucose Monitor Quality Control Tests

The document discusses quality control tests for blood glucose monitors, including using control solutions with each new box of test strips and when results seem unusual, and comparing monitor readings to lab test results within a 15% range to ensure accuracy. If a monitor is not working properly, the manufacturer should be contacted.

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Blood glucose monitor quality control tests

The following quality control tests can assure you that your meter is working properly:

• Test using a control solution. Follow your normal blood-testing procedure, but use a liquid control
solution instead of blood. These solutions usually come with your monitor and are available at most
drugstores and pharmacies. Follow package directions.

Use liquid control solutions every time you open a new container of test strips, and occasionally as you
use them. You generally should also use liquid control solutions if you drop your blood glucose meter, or
whenever you get unusual results.

• Match your reading with lab results. Take the blood glucose monitor along when you visit your doctor or
have an appointment for lab work. Check your blood sugar level with your meter at the same time that
blood is drawn for lab tests. Then compare your meter's reading with the lab results. Results that are
within 15 percent of the lab reading are considered accurate.
If your meter isn't working properly, contact the manufacturer of your meter and test strips.

With

M. Regina Castro, M.D.

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