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Originally Posted by kmac

I often wonder why they csnnot make a more accurate meter (??????????) They can make a talking meter and a meter that is tiny or one that you can order in a colour to match your colour scheme. + or - 20% seems such a huge variation but perhaps I don't understand the problems that need to be surmounted in order to do this.

There is one that is very accurate. It's called the Hemocue Glucose 201. There's a few catches though....

1) The meter itself is not "compact" in that it's about the size of an old school original Gameboy.
2) The meter costs $400-$700, not covered by insurance
3) The strips costs $130 for 100, not covered by insurance
4) The results take about 60 seconds to return
5) 5 µL of blood is required, the most any meter now requires I think is 1 µL. So might as well bring the knife out and start cutting.


All of those add up to the higher accuracy. In general though people will think they have gone back in time, however, if you truely look at it, other companies have sacrificed accuracy and precision for what people want more, and that is money, fast results, small sample sizes, etc. Want accuracy and precision? Pay up for it.



Side note....this is one reason I don't think continuous glucose is ready for the mainstream yet. It is based off of your hopefully accurate glucose reading calibrating it. And even then, it still has a margin of error added to it. So now you have compounding margin of errors.