Effects of different tube types on patient classification using current diabetes decision limits.

Unlabelled: Management of diabetes is a challenge starting in the pre-analytical phase with selecting the most appropriate glycolysis inhibitor. Study goal was to calculate the impact of tubes with different glycolysis inhibitors on the classification of the glycemic control of 157,415 consecutive hospital patients according to current WHO diabetes criteria.

Methods: Glucose and lactate were measured in parallel in samples from 68 healthy subjects collected and stored in different sample tubes from Sarstedt and Greiner.