Abstract
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.