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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