The hill tribes of thailand: Synergistic health care through point-of-care testing, small-world networks, and nodally flexible telemedicine

Point of Care

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 199-204

  Kost, Gerald J ^a,b,c   Suwanyangyuen, Audhaiwan ^b   Kulrattanamaneeporn, Shayanisawa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood gas and pH testing; Cardiac biomarkers; Community hospital; Critically ill; Demography; Electrolytes; Health resource; Node; Primary care unit; Regional hospital; Standard of care; Triage; Whole blood analyzer

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845482718     PISSN: 1533029X     EISSN: 15330303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.poc.0000232580.36762.68     Document Type: Article

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