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Understanding Healthcare Professionals’ Perspectives on Point-of-Care Testing

Diagnostics, 2022
Point-of-care testing (POCT) is an emerging technology that provides crucial assistance in delivering healthcare. The COVID-19 pandemic led to the accelerated importance of POCT technology due to its in-home accessibility.
Sean Teebagy, Ziyue Wang, Denise Dunlap, Connor Saleeba, Danielle DiMezza, JoAnn Crain, Craig M. Lilly, Bryan Buchholz, David D. McManus, Nathaniel Hafer   +9 more
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Point-of-care testing for non-communicable diseases and health literacy outcomes: a systematic review [PDF]

BMC Public Health
Background Health literacy responsiveness has been identified as a key action area in reducing the burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), which are a leading cause of death worldwide.
Kelcie Miller, Lauren Duckworth, Tamika Regnier, Susan Matthews, Igor Toskin, Mark Shephard   +5 more
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Factors determining patients' intentions to use point-of-care testing medical devices for self-monitoring: the case of international normalized ratio self-testing

Patient Preference and Adherence, 2012
Syed Ghulam Sarwar Shah,1 Julie Barnett,1 Jasna Kuljis,2 Kate Hone,2 Richard Kaczmarski31Multidisciplinary Assessment of Technology Centre for Healthcare, 2Department of Information Systems and Computing, Brunel University London, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UK;
Shah SG, Barnett J, Kuljis J, Hone K, Kaczmarski R   +4 more
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Economic evaluation of point-of-care testing in the remote primary health care setting of Australia’s Northern Territory

ClinicoEconomics and Outcomes Research, 2018
Brooke A Spaeth,1 Billingsley Kaambwa,2 Mark DS Shephard,1 Rodney Omond3 1Flinders University International Centre for Point-of-Care Testing, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia; 2Health Economics Unit, College of Medicine and Public Health ...
Spaeth BA, Kaambwa B, Shephard MDS, Omond R   +3 more
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Point of Care Testing

Apollo Medicine, 2009
Arika Mittal Suri, R.S. Uberoi, Anupam Sibal   +2 more
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Optimizing Public Health Preparedness for Highly Infectious Diseases in Central Vietnam

Diagnostics, 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, An V. D. Ho, Layma Zadran, Irene J. Ventura Curiel, Tang-Tung Pham, Duong Thi Bich Thuan, Gerald J. Kost   +6 more
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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

Implementation 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, Kirsty Smith, Louise Causer, Kelly Andrewartha, David Whiley, Steven G. Badman, Basil Donovan, Lorraine Anderson, Annie Tangey, Donna Mak, Lisa Maher, Mark Shephard, Rebecca Guy, on behalf of the TTANGO2 Collaboration   +13 more
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The Coronavirus Disease 2019 Spatial Care Path: Home, Community, and Emergency Diagnostic Portals

Diagnostics, 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]

Global 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, Yacoub Abuzied, Zahra Fagih, Tariq Wani, Ismael Gawan, El Mae Andalay, Mohammed AlSheef   +6 more
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POINT-OF-CARE TESTING

Pediatric 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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