Barriers affecting the adoption of point-of-care technologies used in chest pain diagnosis within the UK National Health Service: Part 1-user issues

Point of Care

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 70-79

  FitzGibbon, Francis ^a   Huckle, David ^b   Meenan, Brian J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b Adams Business Associates   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cardiac markers; Emergency department; ISO 22870 accreditation; NHS; Point of care testing (POCT); Quality assurance; Uptake enhancers; User adoption and implementation barriers

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953101664     PISSN: 1533029X     EISSN: 15330303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/POC.0b013e3181d9d7f8     Document Type: Article

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