CLSI POCT13 A2 : 2ED 2005

Abstract
Committee Membership
Foreword
1 Scope
  1.1 Who Should Use This Guideline?
  1.2 Where Should This Guideline Be Used?
  1.3 What Is Included in This Guideline?
  1.4 How Is This Guideline Organized?
2 Introduction
  2.1 Why Is This Guideline Important?
  2.2 How Can This Guideline Be Used?
  2.3 Are Blood Glucose Monitoring Systems as Accurate as
      Laboratory Instruments?
3 Standard Precautions
4 Definitions
5 Information for the Coordinator
  5.1 Why Is a Coordinator Needed?
  5.2 What Are the Responsibilities of a Coordinator?
  5.3 What Should the Coordinator Do to Start a Glucose
      Monitoring Program?
  5.4 What Considerations Should Guide the Choice of a Glucose
      Monitoring System?
  5.5 Why Is a Procedure Manual Needed and What Should It
      Contain?
  5.6 What Are the Components of a Quality Assurance (QA)
      Program?
  5.7 What Should Be Included in a Training Program for
      Operators?
  5.8 How Should the Competence of Operators Be Determined?
6 Information for the Operator
  6.1 Who Can Perform This Testing?
  6.2 What Is Needed to Perform Glucose Monitoring?
  6.3 What Should Be Done Before Testing?
  6.4 What Should Be Included in Recording Test Results?
  6.5 What Are Appropriate Responses to Abnormal Blood Glucose
      Concentrations?
7 Outline for Procedure Manual
  7.1 Procedure
References
Appendix A. Possible Actions When a Person's Glucose
            Concentration Is Very High or Very Low
Appendix B. New Technologies
Appendix C. Common Problems With the Use of Glucose Meters
Summary of Delegate Comments and Working Group Responses
The Quality System Approach
Related CLSI/NCCLS Publications

Describes the guidelines for performance of point-of-care (POC) glucose monitoring systems that stress quality control, training, and administrative responsibility.