Comparative Study Between Blood Glucose Meters in a Maternity Center.

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.