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POINT-OF-CARE TESTING [PDF]

open access: yesPediatric Clinics of North America, 2001
Point-of-care testing technology rapidly is changing the way physicians practice medicine by facilitating the availability of biochemical parameters immediately or almost immediately. The constant evolution and developments in [figure: see text] microchemistry and computer technology will make this area a dynamic part of medicine with the constant ...
M R, Fiallos, U A, Hanhan, J P, Orlowski
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Optimizing Public Health Preparedness for Highly Infectious Diseases in Central Vietnam

open access: yesDiagnostics, 2022
Our primary objectives were (a) to determine the need for and the availability of point-of-care testing (POCT) for infectious diseases and (b) to recommend point-of-care testing strategies and Spatial Care PathsTM (SCPs) that enhance public health ...
Amanullah Zadran   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Scaling up sexually transmissible infections point-of-care testing in remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities: healthcare workers’ perceptions of the barriers and facilitators

open access: yesImplementation Science Communications, 2021
Background Sexually transmissible infections (STIs), such as gonorrhoea and chlamydia, are highly prevalent, particularly in remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in Australia.
Lise Lafferty   +13 more
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The Coronavirus Disease 2019 Spatial Care Path: Home, Community, and Emergency Diagnostic Portals

open access: yesDiagnostics, 2022
This research uses mathematically derived visual logistics to interpret COVID-19 molecular and rapid antigen test (RAgT) performance, determine prevalence boundaries where risk exceeds expectations, and evaluate benefits of recursive testing along home ...
Gerald J. Kost
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Efficacy of Point-of-Care for INR Testing Compared to Standard Laboratory Methods at a Tertiary Care Hospital in Saudi Arabia [PDF]

open access: yesGlobal Journal on Quality and Safety in Healthcare, 2020
Introduction: Regular testing of the international normalized ratio (INR) is essential for people taking vitamin K antagonists as part of anticoagulation therapy.
Manzoor Bhat   +6 more
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Functional reference limits: a case study of serum ferritin

open access: yesJournal of Laboratory Medicine, 2021
Reference intervals depend on the distribution of results within a reference population and can be influenced by subclinical disease. Functional reference limits present an opportunity to derive clinically relevant reference limits from routinely ...
Sezgin Gorkem   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cardiac biomarkers by point-of-care testing - back to the future? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The measurement of the cardiac troponins (cTn), cardiac troponin T (cTnT) and cardiac troponin I (cTnI) are integral to the management of patients with suspected acute coronary syndromes (ACS).
Collinson, P
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Performance of the Cue COVID-19 point-of-care molecular test: insights from a multi-site clinic service model

open access: yesMicrobiology Spectrum, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the critical need for rapid and accurate molecular diagnostic testing. The Cue COVID-19 Point-of-Care Test (Cue POCT) is a nucleic acid amplification test (NAAT), authorized by Health Canada and FDA as a POCT for SARS ...
Anu Rebbapragada   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Syndromic and Point-of-Care Molecular Testing [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This article is made available for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source.
Abbott, April N., Relich, Ryan F.
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‘We don’t live in a harm reduction world, we live in a prohibition world’: tensions arising in the design of drug alerts

open access: yesHarm Reduction Journal, 2023
Background Drug alerts designed for health and community workforces have potential to avert acute harms associated with unpredictable illicit drug markets, by preparing workers to respond to unusual drug-related events, and distribute information to ...
Isabelle Volpe   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

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