Visidex II and BM 20 – 800 Glycemie strips: A comparison

A comparison was made between the performance of the newly available Visidex II strip (Ames Division, Miles Laboratories Limited, Stoke Poges, Slough, UK) and that of the BM Test Glycemie 20-800 strip and the meter-read BM Reflotest strip (Boehringer Corporation (London) Limited, Lewes, East Sussex, UK). Two methods of removing excess blood from the Visidex II strip were used and analysed separately. All methods gave good correlation with laboratory values. The accuracy of each strip differed little when blood sugar values of all levels were compared. However, for blood sugar values below 10mmol/1, Visidex II strips performed better than BM Test Glycemie 20-800 strips.