Point-of-care testing : performance improvement and evidence-based outcomes /
Point-of-care testing : performance improvement and evidence-based outcomes /
edited by James H. Nichols.
- New York : Marcel Dekker, c2003.
- xi, 500 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
General principles
1.Point-of-care testing
2. The Device approval process
3. Information management and point-of-care testing: strategies for improving outcomes
4. Understanding and preventing medical errors in point-of-care testing (and use of FAST-QC)
5. Performance improvement
6. Patient care pathways
7. Outcomes management: the cost-quality imperative
8. Point-of-care decision making, adaptive systems, and outcomes optimization (and the National Directives for Improved Healthcare)
Case studies
9. Point-of-care blood gas and electrolyte testing: its effect on patient care and the clinical laboratory
10.Point-of-care testing in the management of diabetes mellitus
11.Outcomes-based evaluation of dipstick urinalysis
12.Occult blood
13.Hemoglobin and coagulation
14.Point-of-care testing for biochemical markers of acute coronary syndromes
15.Intraoperative parathyroid hormone
16.Rationale for point-of-care testing (POCT) for drugs of abuse and ethyl alcohol
17.Reproductive testing: ovulation and pregnancy
18.Fetal fibronectin.
0824708687 (alk. paper) 9780824708689
Point-of-care testing--Evaluation.
Evidence-based medicine.
Outcome assessment (Medical care)
Point-of-Care Systems--Case Report.
Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures--Case Report.
Evidence-Based Medicine--Case Report.
Quality Assurance, Health Care--Case Report.
Treatment Outcome--Case Report.
WX 162 P752 2003
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
General principles
1.Point-of-care testing
2. The Device approval process
3. Information management and point-of-care testing: strategies for improving outcomes
4. Understanding and preventing medical errors in point-of-care testing (and use of FAST-QC)
5. Performance improvement
6. Patient care pathways
7. Outcomes management: the cost-quality imperative
8. Point-of-care decision making, adaptive systems, and outcomes optimization (and the National Directives for Improved Healthcare)
Case studies
9. Point-of-care blood gas and electrolyte testing: its effect on patient care and the clinical laboratory
10.Point-of-care testing in the management of diabetes mellitus
11.Outcomes-based evaluation of dipstick urinalysis
12.Occult blood
13.Hemoglobin and coagulation
14.Point-of-care testing for biochemical markers of acute coronary syndromes
15.Intraoperative parathyroid hormone
16.Rationale for point-of-care testing (POCT) for drugs of abuse and ethyl alcohol
17.Reproductive testing: ovulation and pregnancy
18.Fetal fibronectin.
0824708687 (alk. paper) 9780824708689
Point-of-care testing--Evaluation.
Evidence-based medicine.
Outcome assessment (Medical care)
Point-of-Care Systems--Case Report.
Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures--Case Report.
Evidence-Based Medicine--Case Report.
Quality Assurance, Health Care--Case Report.
Treatment Outcome--Case Report.
WX 162 P752 2003