Rapid diagnostic tests (RDT): The cure-all for the practitioner?;Tests diagnostiques rapides (TDR): La panacée pour le praticien?

Revue Medicale Suisse

Volumn 7, Issue 294, 2011, Pages 984-990

  D'Acremont, Valérie ^a,b,c   Greub, Gilbert ^a,d   Genton, Blaise ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c Global TB Programme   (Switzerland)

^d LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EARLY INTERVENTION; EMERGENCY CARE; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; LABORATORY TEST; MALARIA; MICROSCOPY; PATIENT SAFETY; PHYSICIAN; PRESCRIPTION; RAPID DIAGNOSTIC TEST; REVIEW;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; HUMANS; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS;

EID: 79957621161     PISSN: 16609379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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