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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Deleted Account" data-source="post: 1414442">My experience is that the accuracy of the Libre depends on your reading as the accuracy is quoted as a %. So the higher the reading the greater the actual variation. When I trialled the Libre, I was very concerned by this variation so started to investigate the acceptable accuracy (the rep leading the Libre trials said they conform to these standard). According to diabetese.co.uk (<a href="http://www.diabetes.co.uk/blood-glucose-meters/blood-glucose-meter-accuracy.html" target="_blank">http://www.diabetes.co.uk/blood-glucose-meters/blood-glucose-meter-accuracy.html</a>):Since the end of May last year, meters need to meet these accuracy guidelines 95% of the time:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Within ± 0.83 mmol/l of laboratory results at concentrations of under 5.6 mmol/l</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Within ± 15% of laboratory results at concentrations of 5.6 mmol/l or more</li> </ul>This means, meters can be wrong 5% of the time. It also means, the higher the reading, the less accurate it has to be. So if you compare two different meters on blood tested to be 15mmol/l (above the level ketones are likely to be present) in the laboratory, one meter could read as high as 17.2 and the other could be as low as 12.7.</blockquote>

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