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Screening for hypoglycemia at the bedside in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) with the Abbott PCx glucose meter

BACKGROUND: Point of care (POC) glucose meters are routinely used as a screening tool for hypoglycemia in a neonatal setting. Glucose meters however, lack the same accuracy as laboratory instruments for glucose measurement. In this study we investigated potential reasons for this inaccuracy and esta...

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Autores principales: Balion, Cynthia, Grey, Vijaylaxmi, Ismaila, Afisi, Blatz, Susan, Seidlitz, Wendy
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1660538/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17083737
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2431-6-28