Accuracy of the CONTOUR® Blood Glucose Monitoring System

Abstract

The CONTOUR BGMS exceeded both the minimum acceptable accuracy based on ISO 15197:2003 and the more stringent accuracy criteria.

System Accuracy Evaluation of 43 Blood Glucose Monitoring Systems for Self-Monitoring of Blood Glucose according to DIN EN ISO 15197

“…[29][30][31][32][33] Most of the published system accuracy evaluation studies either do not evaluate samples with BG concentration <80 and ≥300 mg/dl (or not sufficient numbers) or use venous blood. [34][35][36][37][38][39] Main reasons for doing so are most likely the difficulty of designing a controlled human study or an adequate procedure to obtain capillary blood samples in hypoglycemic and hyperglycemic ranges.…”

Juvenile divergence in adaptive traits among seven sympatric fish ecomorphs arises before moving to different lacustrine habitats

“…Blood was separated in Nasodium heparin tubes (Corway kit). Glucose concentration was determined using an automatic glucose-meter Contour TS (Harrison et al, 2011). The concentration of haemoglobin was measured by the direct cyanmethemoglobin method (Gammon & Baker, 1977) with the addition of transforming reagent 'Diagem-T' (Renam kit) to 20 mcL of the whole blood.…”

Clinical Implications and Economic Impact of Accuracy Differences among Commercially Available Blood Glucose Monitoring Systems

“…[10][11][12][13][14] Within the boundaries of this standard, meters can have very different performance profiles and error patterns.…”

“…Selection of this study as the meter-and-reference-BG paired points source was done as an example of the range of real-life error distribution in present-day BG meters. It is understood that results on a particular meter from different studies [10][11][12][13][14] may result in different performance outcomes. The comparative results in our analysis are meant to evaluate potential implications of accuracy differences using an empirical meter error distribution in lieu of an assumed error distribution (e.g.…”