ArticleEJIFCC2019
Best Practices in the Implementation of a Point of Care Testing Program: Experience From a Tertiary Care Hospital in a Developing Country.
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Pooled it
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- Validation of Nova Stat Profile Prime Plus point-of-care testing for dialysis in South Africa.African journal of laboratory medicine · 2025Article
- Co-creation process of an intervention to implement a multiparameter point-of-care testing device in a primary healthcare setting for non-communicable diseases in Peru.BMC health services research · 2024Article
- Point of care testing in Croatia: a survey of the Working group for point of care testing of the Croatian society of medical biochemistry and laboratory medicine.Biochemia medica · 2024Article
- Review
- Assessing Third-Year Medical Students' Perspective on Point of Care Testing Boot Camp: From Bench to Bedside.EJIFCC · 2022Article
- Roadmap for large-scale implementation of point-of-care testing in primary care in Central and Eastern European countries: the Hungarian experience.Primary health care research & development · 2022Article
- Recent advances and challenges of biosensing in point-of-care molecular diagnosis.Sensors and actuators. B, Chemical · 2021Review
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- The performance of hepatitis C virus (HCV) antibody point-of-care tests on oral fluid or whole blood and dried blood spot testing for HCV serology and viral load among individuals at higher risk for HCV in South Africa.Health science reports · 2021Article
- Molecular diagnosis of COVID-19: Current situation and trend in China (Review).Experimental and therapeutic medicine · 2020Review
- Decentralisation of healthcare system due to COVID-19 and its impact on hospital based laboratories - Pandemic panic patients' reflection?Journal of responsible technology · 2020Article
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Abstract
Implementation of a structured Point of Care Test (POCT) program is challenging. Traditionally POCT was unregulated and the aim was to introduce a structured POCT program at our tertiary care hospital to ensure compliance with regulatory standards. The purpose of this article is to describe how a hospital in a developing country with limited resources has approached POCT program initiative. The benefits offered by such systems, including cost-effectiveness, robustness and the ability to generate reliable accurate POCT results in a short time, are appropriate to the clinical and social needs of the developing world.
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