TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nichols,James H.
TI  - Point-of-care testing: performance improvement and evidence-based outcomes 
SN  - 0824708687 (alk. paper)
U1  - WX 162 P752 2003 
PY  - 2003///
CY  - New York
PB  - Marcel Dekker
KW  - Point-of-care testing
KW  - Evaluation
KW  - Evidence-based medicine
KW  - Outcome assessment (Medical care)
KW  - Point-of-Care Systems
KW  - Case Report
KW  - Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures
KW  - Evidence-Based Medicine
KW  - Quality Assurance, Health Care
KW  - Treatment Outcome
N1  - 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0647/2002041225-d.html
ER  -