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The purpose of this study was to understand the current status of quality management of point of care (POC) blood glucose testing in a single institution where non-laboratory staff perform the tests. Materials and Methods: From July to August 2020, management status of glucometer, test strips, quality control (QC) materials, quality assurance program, and operators\u2019 response to processing of displayed results was monitored in all Soonchunhyang University Bucheon hospital departments that performed POC blood glucose test. Results of the POC blood glucose test conducted from January 2019 to May 2020 were analyzed retrospectively. Results: A total 124 glucometers were monitored in 47 departments. Insufficient management of approximately 50% of blood sugar, test strips, and QC materials was observed. Although daily QC was conducted by 95.7% of the departments, the QC records were inaccurate. The method of recording test results varied with departments and operators. Various judgments and troubleshooting were performed on the unexpected or out of measurable range results, including some inappropriate processes. In POC blood glucose test results review, 4568 atypical results were identified from a total of 572,207 results. Conclusions: Sufficient training of the non-laboratory staff and ongoing assessment of competency through recertification is needed to maintain acceptable levels of POCT quality. In this study, various problems were identified in glucometer and reagent management, QC and post-analytic phase. We believe that these results provide meaningful basal information for planning effective operators\u2019 training and competency evaluation, and the development of an efficient POCT quality management system.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/medicina57030238","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,3,4]],"date-time":"2021-03-04T21:58:07Z","timestamp":1614895087000},"page":"238","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["What We Should Consider in Point of Care Blood Glucose Test; Current Quality Management Status of a Single Institution"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"57","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4746-4809","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Sooin","family":"Choi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Laboratory Medicine and Genetics, Soonchunhyang University College of Medicine, Soonchunhyang University Bucheon Hospital, 170 Jomaru-ro, Bucheon 14584, Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Soo Jeong","family":"Choi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Internal Medicine, Soonchunhyang University College of Medicine, Soonchunhyang University Bucheon Hospital, 170 Jomaru-ro, Bucheon 14584, Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Byung Ryul","family":"Jeon","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Laboratory Medicine and Genetics, Soonchunhyang University College of Medicine, Soonchunhyang University Bucheon Hospital, 170 Jomaru-ro, Bucheon 14584, Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yong-Wha","family":"Lee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Laboratory Medicine and Genetics, Soonchunhyang University College of Medicine, Soonchunhyang University Bucheon Hospital, 170 Jomaru-ro, Bucheon 14584, Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jongwon","family":"Oh","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Laboratory Medicine, Soonchunhyang University College of Medicine, Soonchunhyang University Cheonan Hospital, 31 Soonchunhyang6gil, Cheonan 31151, Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1835-2007","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"You Kyoung","family":"Lee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Laboratory Medicine and Genetics, Soonchunhyang University College of Medicine, Soonchunhyang University Bucheon Hospital, 170 Jomaru-ro, Bucheon 14584, Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,3,4]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"430","article-title":"Performance evaluation of the Piccolo xpress Point-of-care Chemistry Analyzer","volume":"29","author":"Park","year":"2009","journal-title":"Korean J. 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