Best Practices in the Implementation of a Point of Care Testing Program: Experience From a Tertiary Care Hospital in a Developing Country

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 ho...

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Autores principales: Khan, Aysha Habib, Shakeel, Shahid, Hooda, Khairunnissa, Siddiqui, Kashif, Jafri, Lena
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Communications and Publications Division (CPD) of the IFCC 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6803771/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31695586
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description 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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spelling pubmed-68037712019-11-06 Best Practices in the Implementation of a Point of Care Testing Program: Experience From a Tertiary Care Hospital in a Developing Country Khan, Aysha Habib Shakeel, Shahid Hooda, Khairunnissa Siddiqui, Kashif Jafri, Lena EJIFCC Research Article 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. The Communications and Publications Division (CPD) of the IFCC 2019-10-11 /pmc/articles/PMC6803771/ /pubmed/31695586 Text en Copyright © 2019 International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (IFCC). All rights reserved. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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