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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Chim Acta. 2007 Dec 3;389(1-2):31–39. doi: 10.1016/j.cca.2007.11.019

Figure 5.

Figure 5

Tight Glucose Control (TGC) Intervals—Evidence-Based Clinical Investigations. To maintain TGC, nurses adjust therapy quickly after obtaining bedside glucose results each hour or more frequently. This short therapeutic turnaround time generally requires bedside testing. Hence, POC results must be accurate, because the clinical team uses them for immediate decision making. The TGC ranges at the top were obtained from published papers (8-18). The mark in the top interval represents mean glucose (138 mg/dl) in the study by Lazar et al. [8]. Hospital TGC ranges shown below were obtained by calling.