Assessment of user perspectives of cardiac point of care technologies in chest pain diagnosis

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1762-1765

  FitzGibbon, Francis ^a   Brown, Alan ^a   Meenan, Brian J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIAC MARKER TESTING; POINT OF CARE TESTING (POCT);

ACCREDITATION; BIOMARKERS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; HEALTH CARE; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

MEDICAL PROBLEMS;

TROPONIN T;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL CHEMISTRY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HOSPITAL LABORATORY; HUMAN; REPRODUCIBILITY; THORAX PAIN; TIME;

CHEST PAIN; CLINICAL CHEMISTRY TESTS; CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; CORONARY DISEASE; HUMANS; LABORATORIES, HOSPITAL; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS; TROPONIN T;

EID: 57649203301     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2007.4352652     Document Type: Conference Paper

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