Yes he did - I found it at http://www.mendosa.com/blog/?p=880 many thansk for this. See also http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/pdfplus/10.1089/dia.2011.0170. In both of these the accucheks and freestyle meters did very well. Best wishes
Based on everyone's recommendations, I got the Accucheck Aviva. It gave me a reading of 93 and my Bayer Contour gave me a reading of 78 with the same drop of blood. I don't know which one is right, but I'm going to go with the Accucheck. I will compare it to my labs next time I get them done,
I do not like that I have to code this meter. I also don't like that it's bigger and the carrying case doesn't fit my needs. I reuse my syringes throughout the day and suck insulin out of an insulin cartridge (the kind meant for a pen but I don't use the pen). The syringes and insulin cartridge fit perfectly in the zipper compartment of my Contour case, but not the Accucheck case. And the darn Accucheck meter is so big it doesn't fit in the countour case. I might have to try to make my own.
I used a Contour initially but soon changed to Wavesense meters because the strips are more reasonably priced and they have a good reputation for accuracy. I noticed that the Wavesense also read higher than the Contour. As a T2 not on insulin I figured this was a good thing in that it would prompt me to keep stricter control of my diet.
I download my readings to my computer and print out reports before each Dr. visit. For what it's worth the average of my readings, converted to an A1C always match my actual A1C down to the tenth. Interestingly the 30 day average is the best predictor as opposed to the 90 day, which is what the A1C is supposed to measure.
I checked with David Mendosa and the articles he pointed me to all show the Freestyle Lite [ which I use] to be one of the most accurate meters.
Hana
I Agree with GlacierLily's comment above re the bulky case! The accuchek case is much larger and less useful than the freestyle Lite I had (let alone the loss of the light on the Freestyle which was helpful for night testing). However I have changed to Accuchek for now despite this for the reasons given above. Like you I also take a days worth of insulin into a syringe from a 3ml cartridge and carry the syringe around (for the day leaving the cartridge at home in the fridge). I have got a syringe carrying case (looks like an insulin pen that you can clip the prefilled syringe in) and now I slide that through the elastic strap on the back of the Accuchek Aviva case to carry them together but, as you say, more bulky and not as convenient as when i had the Freestyle.
(Incidentally I have managed to fix the Nav to the higher readings of the Aviva (see above comment) too - just putting in 17 instead of 16 as the code for the calibration strip (plus the evaporation technique I described above) seems to make it read higher and so far it is agreeing with the Aviva fine so good news there!). Regards
Find the charts for your meter and see how stastically accurate they are. The Aviva looks like a good meter. The best meter I have found is the Wavesense Presto (both price and accuracy). Strips are about $35/100 for the Presto versus around $45/100 for the Aviva.
http://www.wavesense.info/uploads/pdf/WaveSense_Presto_White_Paper.pdf
https://www.poc.roche.com/en_US/multimedia/AC_work_http/23203Aviva.pdf
I registered for some kind of a program with Accu-chek where I only pay $17 for enough strips to test 6 times a day. It used to be only $15. I'm not sure if the deal is that you have to have regular insurance to qualify or not. My copay without this plan would have been around $50.