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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, Bulut, Cazacu, de la Hoz, Dighe, Diiulio, Ender, Farfel, Gerald J. Kost, Ginocchio, Grandjean, Grondhal, Hiransuthikul, Hurt, Ivers, Kazancioglu, Kost, Kost, Kost, Kost, Kost, Kristin N. Hale, Lam, Louie, Lupisan, Millie, MMWR, Nam K. Tran, Nicole L. Gentile, Nishiura, Pabbaraju, Qadri, Rajendran, Richard F. Louie, Schneider, Shaman, Shaman, Sinigalliano, T. Keith Brock, Tao, Thomas, Tyler K. Kitano, Uckay, Vernon, Vollaard   +44 more
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Cryptococcal Meningitis Diagnostics and Screening in the Era of Point-of-Care Laboratory Testing. [PDF]

, 2019
Over the past ten years, standard diagnostics for cryptococcal meningitis in HIV-infected persons have evolved from culture to India ink to detection of cryptococcal antigen (CrAg), with the recent development and distribution of a point-of-care lateral ...
Beyene, T, Boulware, DR, Katende, A, Letang, E, Rajasingham, R, Wake, RM   +5 more
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Geospatial Science and Point-of-Care Testing: Creating Solutions for Population Access, Emergencies, Outbreaks, and Disasters

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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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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Patient needs and point-of-care requirements for HIV load testing in resource-limited settings [PDF]

, 2010
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is an international, independent medical nongovernmental organization. One way in which MSF acts to improve patient care is to assist in the identification and development of adapted and appropriate tools for use in ...
Calmy, Alexandra, Guillerm, Martine, Usdin, Martine   +2 more
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Concordance of three point of care testing devices with clinical chemistry laboratory standard assays and patient-reported outcomes of blood sampling methods

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2022
Background Point of care testing (POCT) devices have been developed to facilitate immediate results with the potential to aid screening for new disease and enable patients to self-monitor their disease.
Z. Yonel, K. Kuningas, P. Sharma, M. Dutton, Z. Jalal, P. Cockwell, J. Webber, P. Narendran, T. Dietrich, I. L. C. Chapple   +9 more
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Progress and Challenges of Implementing Decentralized HIV Testing For Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV - Myanmar. [PDF]

, 2019
BackgroundMyanmar has adopted point-of-care (POC) HIV testing for its prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV program, and was initiated in 84 townships in 2013.
Comulada, W Scott, Detels, Roger, Hone, San, Lee, Sung-Jae, Li, Li   +4 more
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Point-of-Care Tests’ Role in Time Metrics of Urgent Interventions in Emergency Department; a Systematic Review of Literature

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, Mohammad Sadegh Sanie Jahromi, Samaneh Abiri, Reza Akhavan, Hossein Akhavan, Bita Abbasi, Fatemeh Maleki, Somayyeh Ahmadnezhad, Behrang Rezvani Kakhki, Navid Kalani, Pourya Adibi   +10 more
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Advancing prevention of sexually transmitted infections through point-of-care testing : target product profiles and landscape analysis [PDF]

, 2017
Objectives: Advancing the field of point-of-care testing (POCT) for STIs can rapidly and substantially improve STI control and prevention by providing targeted, essential STI services (case detection and screening).
Blondeel, Karel, Cordero, Joanna, Kiarie, James, Murtagh, Maurine, Peeling, Rosanna W, Toskin, Igor   +5 more
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External Quality Assessment (EQA) for SARS-CoV-2 RNA Point-of-Care Testing in Primary Healthcare Services: Analytical Performance over Seven EQA Cycles

Diagnostics
In April 2020, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander COVID-19 Point-of-Care (POC) Testing Program was initiated to improve access to rapid molecular-based SARS-CoV-2 detection in First Nations communities.
Susan J. Matthews, Kelcie Miller, Kelly Andrewartha, Melisa Milic, Deane Byers, Peter Santosa, Alexa Kaufer, Kirsty Smith, Louise M. Causer, Belinda Hengel, Ineka Gow, Tanya Applegate, William D. Rawlinson, Rebecca Guy, Mark Shephard   +14 more
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