Facts about glucose meters and their errors

By David C Skul
12/13/2005

Glucose meters and other diabetes supplies are now helping people all around the world. If you don't know, diabetes is nowadays the sixth cause of death in the U.S. Over 18 million people in the U.S. have diabetes. This is 6% of the country's population.

So, there is an important percentage of people that need glucose meters and diabetes care. Diabetes happens when the body cannot produce enough insulin or when the insulin that is produced in the pancreas cannot work effectively. When it is not well control (by the use of glucose meters and other diabetes supplies) it can cause grave complications and even premature death. But the good news is that you can now control diabetes with the help of personal glucose meters. Glucose meters are diabetes supplies that are used to check and monitor the blood glucose level.

The glucose meters can always show you the concentration of glucose in your blood and let you know when you will have to have an insulin dose. They can even help in the adjustment of insulin doses. But, like almost everything on the Earth, glucose meters are not really perfect. Quality specifications for glucose meters allow now results to be in error by 5-10% (or even more) of the true concentration. So, for the glucose meters that have a total analytical error of 5%, dosage errors will me somewhere in 8-23% of insulin doses.

If the analytical error of some glucose meters is bigger, the dosage errors will be bigger (for example for 10% total error you have 16-45% dosage error). This is why people with diabetes should have all the information needed about how their glucose meters work (for lowering or rising the insulin dosage by 1-2% depending on the meter) in order to have a good 90-95% insulin dosage.

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