Performance of “Kits” Used for Clinical Chemical Analysis of Glucose

Abstract

Comprehensive studies were performed on 17 “kits” for glucose analysis on the market in June 1967. These included reproducibility studies of aqueous solutions at three levels, reproducibility studies of serum pools at three levels, recovery studies, and 50 patient comparisons using the AutoAnalyzer ferricyanide method for reference. Operator bias was eliminated by performing all calculations after the experiments were complete. Five of the kits were found to be satisfactory by arbitrary performance criteria and 12 were not.