Quality Specifications for Glucose POCT (WG-GPOCT)
Membership (Closed in 2013)
|
Name |
Position |
Country |
Term |
Time in
Office |
| R. Tirimacco |
Chair |
AU |
1st |
2010 01 - 2012 12 |
| R. Erasmus |
Member |
ZA |
| B. Goldsmith |
Member |
US |
| G. Koumantakis |
Member |
AU |
| A. Mosca |
Member |
IT |
| S. Sandberg |
Member |
SE |
| I. Watson |
Member |
UK |
Terms of Reference
To investigate the quality specifications required for glucose
PoCT meters as glucose testing is used in a wide range of health
care settings including:
- Hospitals - Adult: A&E, medical wards, intensive care -
Paediatric: A&E, medical ward, intensive care
- General practice/physicians office
- Specialists
- Ambulances
- Air Ambulances
- Patients/Carers - self monitoring
- Nursing Homes
- Population surveys - screening
Projects
- To develop allowable analytical error (including bias and
imprecision) recommendations for different clinical
situations.
- To develop recommendations about suitability of instruments for
different clinical situations.
- To define training standards for both health workers and
patients.
- To develop clinician derived quality specifications for
critically ill patients.
- To develop clinician derived quality specifications for general
practice.
- To develop clinician derived quality specifications for
ambulances/Air Ambulances/Emergency Departments.
- To establish epidemiologists derived quality specifications for
population surveys.
- To develop patient derived quality specifications for
self/testing.
- To develop paediatric derived quality specifications for
paediatric patients.
Outcomes
Summary of outcomes of WG
List of Corresponding Members, nominated by National
Societies
| Name |
Full Member Society |
| Mark Shepard |
Australasian Association
of Clinical Biochemists (AACB) |
| Ethienne Cavalier |
Société Belge de Chimie
Clinique (SBCC) |
| Joëlle Goudable |
Société Française de
Biologie Clinique (SFBC) |
| Tjan Sian Hwa |
Indonesian Association
for Clinical Chemistry (HKKI) |
| Emanuel Artem |
Russian
Scientifically-Practical Society of Specialists in Laboratory
Medicine (RSPSSLM) |
| Vladimir Procenko |
Ukrainian Society of
Clinical Laboratory Diagnostics (USCLD) |
Working Group Chair's contact
Ms. Rosy TIRIMACCO
Network Operations & Research Manager
iCCnet SA
Mail box 28, Level 3B
Mark Oliphant Building, Science Park
Bedford Park
South Australia 5042
AUSTRALIA
Tel: +61-(0)8-8201 7842
Fax: +61-(0)8-8201 7850
E-mail: Rosy.Tirimacco@health.sa.gov.au