Users Manual Part 1

49Overview of the system
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pulse · Software version 01.03 · User Assistance · Publication version 1.0
About tests
In this section
About patient entry(49)
About collecting a blood sample(51)
About performing a glucose test(52)
About glucose test results(54)
About performing QC tests(58)
About proficiency testing(60)
About linearity testing(60)
About the observed test sequence (OTS)(62)
About adding comments to a test result(62)
About the test strip port light(64)
About patient entry
The way in which your instrument manages patient IDs
depends on how it has been configured.
You enter patients in the following tests:
• Glucose test
• Insulin entry
• OTS
The following configurations can be made to your
instrument, and determine how it manages patient entry.
• Entry methods
• Autocomplete
• ID pattern recognition
• ID validation
• Confirmation
Entry methods
The entry methods are:
• RFID tag
• Barcode scanning
• Keyboard entry
Your instrument can be configured to determine which
entry methods you can use.
2 Overview of the system