Evidence-based point-of-care device design for emergency and disaster care

Point of Care

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 65-69

  Mecozzi, Daniel M ^a,b   Brock, T Keith ^a   Tran, Nam K ^a   Hale, Kristin N ^a   Kost, Gerald J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnostics; Pathogen detection; Survey; Trade off questions; Visual logistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953084977     PISSN: 1533029X     EISSN: 15330303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/POC.0b013e3181d9d47a     Document Type: Article

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