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Effective interventions to improve the quality of critically high point-of-care glucose meter results

Practical Laboratory Medicine, 2020
Objectives: Point-of-care testing (POCT) is testing performed outside the traditional laboratory, often at the patient bedside. In hospital settings, blood glucose is the most common POCT.
Julie LV. Shaw, Christopher R. McCudden, David A. Colantonio, Ronald A. Booth, Danny C. Lin, Ivan M. Blasutig, Thomas Moran, Dana Trofimczuk, Chantal Carriere, Anas Gharra, Cheryl Portelance, Chantal Tremblay, Dianne Dupaul, Nathalie Breton, Merina Angelkovski, Chetan Jariwala, Maureen Embleton, Christine Campbell, Kristina Groulx, Karen Larmour   +19 more
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Testing public health intervention guidance on increasing the uptake of HIV testing among men who have sex with men. Final fieldwork report [PDF]

, 2011
This guidance is for NHS and other commissioners, managers and practitioners who have a direct or indirect role in, and responsibility for, increasing the uptake of HIV testing among men who have sex with men.
Dodds, Catherine, Keogh, Peter, Weatherburn, Peter   +2 more
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Process of designing robust, dependable, safe and secure software for medical devices: Point of care testing device as a case study [PDF]

, 2013
This article has been made available through the Brunel Open Access Publishing Fund.Copyright © 2013 Sivanesan Tulasidas et al. This paper presents a holistic methodology for the design of medical device software, which encompasses of a new way of ...
Balachandran, W, Craw, P, Gkatzidou, V, Hudson, C, Mackay, R, Tulasidas, S   +5 more
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The Fate (Outcome) of Clinically Apparent Single Lesion and Oligofocal Nephroblastomatosis Treated According to SIOP/GPOH Protocols for Wilms Tumor

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background The management of clinically apparent single lesions or oligofocal nephroblastomatosis, a facultative precursor of nephroblastoma, remains debated. Methods We retrospectively analyzed 37 patients with clinically apparent single or oligofocal nephroblastomatosis (two to three lesions per kidney) among 2347 patients registered between
Nils Welter, Jens‐Peter Schenk, Jenny Wegert, Manfred Gessler, Leo Kager, Stefan Wagenpfeil, Marina Müller, Jean‐Michel Wolff, Joerg Fuchs, Steven W. Warmann, Clemens‐Magnus Meier, Jochen Hubertus, Christian Rübe, Christian Vokuhl, Patrick Melchior, Lena Tschirner, Norbert Graf, Rhoikos Furtwängler   +17 more
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‘They Need to Hear You Say It’: Healthcare Professionals’ Perspectives on Barriers and Enablers to End‐of‐Life Discussions With Adolescents and Young Adults With Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT End‐of‐life conversations with adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer rarely occur without the guidance of healthcare professionals. As a part of the ‘Difficult Discussions’ study, focused on palliative care and advance care planning discussions with AYAs with cancer, we investigated the factors that healthcare professionals identify ...
Justine Lee, Holly Evans, Claire E. Wakefield, Antoinette Anazodo, Richard J. Cohn, Brittany C. McGill, Elizabeth A. Lobb, Lori Wiener, Madeleine L. Juhrmann, Ursula M. Sansom‐Daly   +9 more
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Hematology point of care testing and laboratory errors: an example of multidisciplinary management at a children's hospital in northeast Italy

Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare, 2014
Sergio Parco, Patrizia Visconti, Fulvia Vascotto Institute for Maternal and Child Health, Trieste, Italy Abstract: Involvement of health personnel in a medical audit can reduce the number of errors in laboratory medicine. The checked control of point of
Parco S, Visconti P, Vascotto F
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Point-of-care C-reactive protein testing in Febrile Children in General Practice [PDF]

, 2006
__Background:__ Point-of-care testing for C-reactive protein (CRP) may be helpful in differentiating viral from bacterial infection. Such a device should give results comparable to laboratory testing.
Berger, M.Y. (Marjolein), Brakel, J. (Jocelyn) van, Brinke, M.H. (Majolein) ten, Montenij, M. (Miriam), Rijke, Y.B. (Yolanda) de   +4 more
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Feasibility and Safety of High‐Dose Proton Re‐Irradiation in Recurrent Pediatric Central Nervous System Tumors: A Single‐Institution Retrospective Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose Pediatric central nervous system (CNS) tumors often recur despite multimodality therapy. Although re‐irradiation (re‐RT) has historically been limited by concerns for severe late toxicities, modern techniques have renewed interest in this approach. Proton therapy provides dosimetric advantages that may enable curative re‐treatment with
Jin‐Ho Song, Jonathan Baron, Carlos Chavez Perez, Sidharth Ramesh, Jane Minturn, Kavita A. Desai, Amish C. Shah, Jean M. Belasco, Kristina A. Cole, Michael J. Fisher, Phillip B. Storm, Peter M. Madsen, Goldie Kurtz, Robert A. Lustig, Christine Hill‐Kayser, Michael J. LaRiviere   +15 more
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Economic evaluation of alternative testing regimes and settings to detect undiagnosed HIV in Australia

BMC Health Services Research, 2021
Background The study aimed to estimate the comparative costs per positive diagnosis of previously undetected HIV in three testing regimes: conventional; parallel and point of care (POC) testing.
Owain D. Williams, Judith A. Dean, Anna Crothers, Charles F. Gilks, Jeff Gow   +4 more
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Point-of-care testing comes of age in Australia [PDF]

, 2010
A wide range of point-of-care tests is available and being used in both hospital and community settings for acute and chronic illnesses. There have been significant improvements in device technology as well as advances in training methods, procedures to ...
Shephard, Mark Douglas
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