Resources

International Diabetes Federation
The mission of the International Diabetes Federation is to promote diabetes care, prevention and a cure worldwide.

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Primary Care Diabetes Society
The PCDS supports every primary care health professional to deliver high-quality, clinically effective care in order to improve the lives of people with diabetes.

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Diabetes Insight
Diabetes Insights is Ireland's only private independent nurse advisory service and education centre for people with diabetes.

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Healthy Eating for People with Type 2 Diabetes
Prepared by the Diabetes Interest Group of the Irish Nutrition & Dietetic Institute

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20 Jan 2014

Evaluation of the FreeStyle Optium Neo Blood Glucose and Ketone Monitoring System
Objective: To evaluate the performance of the Abbott Diabetes Care FreeStyle Optium Neo Blood Glucose and Ketone Monitoring System against the performance requirements for blood glucose monitoring in ISO 15197:2013' in clinical and laboratory studies.

28 Jun 2010

Accuracy Evaluation of the FreeStyle Freedom Lite, Accu-Chek Performa, OneTouch Ultra and OneTouch Vita Systems
Objective: To compare the accuracy of four latest models of blood glucose monitoring systems using the current standard and tighter criteria

22 Mar 2010

Accuracy of Four Blood Glucose Monitoring Systems
Objective: To compare the accuracy of four latest models of blood glucose monitoring systems using the current standard and tighter criteria.

01 Dec 2009

Evaluation of the Current Precision Point-of-Care Blood Glucose Test Strip
Objective: To evaluate the performance of the Abbott Diabetes Care Precision Point of Care (POC) Blood Glucose test strip for use with Precision Xceed Pro, Precision Xtra, Precision Xceed, Optium and Optium Xceed meters on capillary, arterial, venous, and neonatal blood samples in clinical and laboratory studies.

12 Aug 2008

FreeStyle Lite Blood Glucose Monitoring System Accuracy
Objective: To compare FreeStyle Lite and YSI measurements in capillary blood to access the accuracy of FreeStyle Lite System.

15 Jan 2008

Accuracy of Four Blood Glucose Monitoring Systems
Objective: To compare the accuracy of four latest models of blood glucose monitoring systems.

29 Aug 2007

Evaluation of the FreeStyle Lite Blood Glucose Monitoring System
Objective: To evaluate the analytical performance and clinical accuracy of the FreeStyle Lite Blood Glucose Monitoring system.

27 Jul 2007

Ketone testing for diabetes management
Objective: Demonstrate how DSNs are in a unique position to initiate the use of available technology to improve the experience of people with diabetes and positively influence the wider community protocols used within their area of practice.

29 Jun 2006

Clinical Evaluation of a Faster, Smaller Sample Volume Blood β-Ketone Test Strip
Objective: To evaluate the clinical performance of a new (1.5 μL, 10-second) blood ß-Ketone test strip, for use with certain Precision and Optium brand meters for fingertip testing with fresh capillary whole blood or venous whole blood samples (healthcare professional).The blood ß-Ketone test strip measures ß-hydroxybutyrate, the predominant and most important of the three ketone bodies circulating in the bloodstream.

08 Sep 2005

Clinical Evaluation of a Faster, Smaller Volume Blood Glucose Test Strip Based on TrueMeasure™ Technology
Objective: To evaluate the clinical performance of a new (0.6 μL, 5-second) blood glucose test strip, based on TrueMeasure technology,for use with the Precision Xceed and Optium Xceed meters for fingertip and alternative site testing.

22 Jul 2005

FreeStyle™ Blood Glucose Test Strip Performance
Objective: To evaluate the performance of the Abbott FreeStyle blood glucose test strip for accuracy, precision,linearity, interference, hematocrit effect, and ease of use.

06 Jun 2005

Accuracy of the FreeStyle™ Blood Glucose Monitoring System In Situations of Rapidly Changing Glucose Levels
Objective: To evaluate FreeStyle glucose measurements from the finger and the palm (at the base of the thumb) during periods of rapidly changing glucose levels and establish whether this sampling site offers equivalent results to fingertip tests and therefore improved accuracy over other alternative test sites.