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Design and Adoption of Low-Cost Point-of-Care Diagnostic Devices: Syrian Case

Civil wars produce immense humanitarian crises, causing millions of individuals to seek refuge in other countries. The rate of disease prevalence has inclined among the refugees, increasing the cost of healthcare. Complex medical conditions and high numbers of patients at healthcare centers overwhel...

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Autores principales: Alseed, M. Munzer, Syed, Hamzah, Onbasli, Mehmet Cengiz, Yetisen, Ali K., Tasoglu, Savas
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Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8401864/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34442504
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/mi12080882
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author Alseed, M. Munzer
Syed, Hamzah
Onbasli, Mehmet Cengiz
Yetisen, Ali K.
Tasoglu, Savas
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description Civil wars produce immense humanitarian crises, causing millions of individuals to seek refuge in other countries. The rate of disease prevalence has inclined among the refugees, increasing the cost of healthcare. Complex medical conditions and high numbers of patients at healthcare centers overwhelm the healthcare system and delay diagnosis and treatment. Point-of-care (PoC) testing can provide efficient solutions to high equipment cost, late diagnosis, and low accessibility of healthcare services. However, the development of PoC devices in developing countries is challenged by several barriers. Such PoC devices may not be adopted due to prejudices about new technologies and the need for special training to use some of these devices. Here, we investigated the concerns of end users regarding PoC devices by surveying healthcare workers and doctors. The tendency to adopt PoC device changes is based on demographic factors such as work sector, education, and technology experience. The most apparent concern about PoC devices was issues regarding low accuracy, according to the surveyed clinicians.
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spelling pubmed-84018642021-08-29 Design and Adoption of Low-Cost Point-of-Care Diagnostic Devices: Syrian Case Alseed, M. Munzer Syed, Hamzah Onbasli, Mehmet Cengiz Yetisen, Ali K. Tasoglu, Savas Micromachines (Basel) Article Civil wars produce immense humanitarian crises, causing millions of individuals to seek refuge in other countries. The rate of disease prevalence has inclined among the refugees, increasing the cost of healthcare. Complex medical conditions and high numbers of patients at healthcare centers overwhelm the healthcare system and delay diagnosis and treatment. Point-of-care (PoC) testing can provide efficient solutions to high equipment cost, late diagnosis, and low accessibility of healthcare services. However, the development of PoC devices in developing countries is challenged by several barriers. Such PoC devices may not be adopted due to prejudices about new technologies and the need for special training to use some of these devices. Here, we investigated the concerns of end users regarding PoC devices by surveying healthcare workers and doctors. The tendency to adopt PoC device changes is based on demographic factors such as work sector, education, and technology experience. The most apparent concern about PoC devices was issues regarding low accuracy, according to the surveyed clinicians. MDPI 2021-07-27 /pmc/articles/PMC8401864/ /pubmed/34442504 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/mi12080882 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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