Recommendations of the German Working Group on Medical Laboratory Testing (AML) on the introduction and quality assurance of procedures for point-of-care testing (POCT) in hospitals

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 919-925

  Briedigkeit, L ^a   Müller Plathe, Oswald ^a   Schlebusch, H ^a   Ziems, J ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Bedside testing; Near patient testing; Point of care testing

Indexed keywords

ELECTROLYTE; GLUCOSE;

ACID BASE BALANCE; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; BLOOD CLOTTING; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ELECTROLYTE BLOOD LEVEL; ENERGY METABOLISM; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HOMEOSTASIS; HOSPITAL LABORATORY; LABORATORY TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; TOXICOLOGY;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 0032695891     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.1999.136     Document Type: Review

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