Point-of-care testing : performance improvement and evidence-based outcomes / edited by James H. Nichols.
Publication details: New York : Marcel Dekker, c2003.Description: xi, 500 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 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
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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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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