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.