Bedside glucose testing - Applications in the home and hospital

Point-of-care testing is an increasingly popular means of delivering diagno stic testing closer to the site of patient care. Although point-of-care glu cose testing devices have been around for over a decade, concerns about the quality of the results still plague the industry. Changes in federal and s tate laws that treat point-of-care testing as an extension of the core labo ratory promise to improve the quality of testing. The most challenging aspe ct of quality testing is selection of the appropriate method (core laborato ry versus point-of-care test) for the optimal patient outcome.