What's new in point-of-care testing?

Point of Care

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 83-85

  Foran Melanson, Stacy E ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

hydroxybutyrate; Chlamydia; Glucose; HIV; Intraoperative blood gas; Lactate; NT proBNP; Platelet function; Point of care; Respiratorypathogen

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650104762     PISSN: 1533029X     EISSN: 15330303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/POC.0b013e3181820300     Document Type: Article

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