ArticleResearch square2025
Evaluating the accuracy of point of care testing compared to standard laboratory testing among inborn infants in the neonatal intensive care unit.
Article in Research square, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
- Updated by
Authors and funding
6 authors.
Funding
Abstract
Objective: Point-of-care (POC) testing offers expedited results with lower blood volume requirements than central laboratory (CL) tests, particularly beneficial for low-birth-weight infants. Methods: A retrospective cohort of 118 patients with paired POC and CL tests was performed within one hour during the first 14 postnatal days. Differences and agreement were assessed using paired t-tests and Lin's concordance correlation coefficient (CCC). Results: Differences were observed between POC and CL measurements: sodium (6.0 mEq/L, CCC = 0.57), potassium (0.1 mEq/dL, CCC = 0.82), chloride (4.4 mEq/L, CCC = 0.70), glucose (3.5 mg/dL, CCC = 0.97), hemoglobin (-0.04 g/dL, CCC = 0.98) and hematocrit (-0.6%, CCC = 0.97). Differences were consistent across lab results, gestational ages, birthweights, and clinical factors. Conclusions: POC results differed from CL results in sodium and chloride, with little difference in potassium, glucose, hemoglobin, and hematocrit. POC testing may reduce blood volume and provide rapid results for decision-making.
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.