Point-of-care testing for disasters: needs assessment, strategic planning, and future design. [PDF]
, 2009 Objective evidence-based national surveys serve as a first step in identifying suitable point-of-care device designs, effective test clusters, and environmental operating conditions.
Bangs +44 more
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2019 Objectives: (a) To understand how to integrate geospatial concepts when implementing point-of-care testing (POCT); (b) to facilitate emergency, outbreak, and disaster preparedness and emergency management in healthcare small-world networks; (c) to ...
Gerald J. Kost, Gerald J. Kost
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Emergency Medicine Journal, 2022 Methods to improve the safety, accuracy and efficiency of assessment of patients with suspected acute coronary symptoms have occupied decades of study and have supported significant changes in clinical practice. Much of the progress is reliant on results
L. Cullen, P. Collinson, E. Giannitsis
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Beliefs and Attitudes of Medical Students from Public and Private Universities in Malaysia towards Individuals with HIV/AIDS [PDF]
, 2013 We describe the findings from a survey assessing the beliefs regarding testing, confidentiality, disclosure, and environment of care and attitudes towards care of people with HIV/AIDS (PLHWA), in 1020, 4th and 5th year medical students, from public and ...
Choy, K. K., Khan, S. A., Rene, T. J.
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Point-of-care testing for COVID-19 using SHERLOCK diagnostics
medRxiv, 2020 The recent outbreak of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, can be diagnosed using RT-qPCR, but inadequate access to reagents and equipment has slowed disease detection and impeded efforts to mitigate viral spread.
J. Joung +14 more
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Point-of-care testing for HIV [PDF]
Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2018 Point-of-care testing for HIV, in which finger-prick blood or saliva samples are analyzed, provides preliminary results at the same patient encounter that testing is performed. It is useful in settings where patients may have challenges attending subsequent appointments or when a rapid HIV ...
Isaac I. Bogoch, Daniel Dalcin
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External quality assurance for HIV point-of-care testing in Africa: A collaborative country-partner approach to strengthen diagnostic services [PDF]
, 2016 It is important to consider the role of diagnostics and the critical need for quality diagnostics services in resource-limited settings. Accurate diagnostic tests play a key role in patient management and the prevention and control of most infectious ...
Boeras, DI, Peeling, RW
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Diagnosing serious infections in acutely ill children in ambulatory care (ERNIE 2 study protocol, part A): diagnostic accuracy of a clinical decision tree and added value of a point-of-care C-reactive protein test and oxygen saturation [PDF]
, 2014 Background: Acute illness is the most common presentation of children to ambulatory care. In contrast, serious infections are rare and often present at an early stage. To avoid complications or death, early recognition and adequate referral are essential.
Aertgeerts, B. +7 more
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Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine, 2022 Introduction: Point-of-Care Testing (POCT) could be helpful in clinical decisions, treatment selection, monitoring, prognostication, operational decision-making, and resource utilization.
Sara Rahsepar +10 more
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Lateral Flow Immunoassay Reader Technologies for Quantitative Point-of-Care Testing
Italian National Conference on Sensors, 2022 Due to the recent pandemic caused by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the lateral flow immunoassay used for its rapid antigen test is more popular than ever before.
Jongwon Park
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