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Point-of-care testing : performance improvement and evidence-based outcomes / edited by James H. Nichols.

Contributor(s): Publication details: New York : Marcel Dekker, c2003.Description: xi, 500 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0824708687 (alk. paper)
  • 9780824708689
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • WX 162 P752 2003
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Contents:
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.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Open Access Book Open Access Health Sciences Library WA 525 C951 2001 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available MBAL22031869

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.

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