Glucose Measurement: Confounding Issues in Setting Targets for Inpatient Management

We thank Dungan et al. (1) for their recent review of the potential factors that can adversely affect inpatient glucose measurements. Their review is timely and provides a much-needed overview of an important and complex subject, especially now that hospitals are using point-of-care devices to monitor intensive insulin protocols. However, we feel that the information listed in Table 1 of their study is potentially misleading. First, the presence …