Point-of-care testing quality: Some positives but also some negatives

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 57, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1219-1220

  Kazmierczak, Steven C ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ELECTROLYTE; GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; KETONE DERIVATIVE; LACTIC ACID;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL LABORATORY; EDITORIAL; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MEDICAL ERROR; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; POINT OF CARE TESTING; SAMPLING; URINALYSIS;

CLINICAL CHEMISTRY TESTS; HUMANS; MEDICAL ERRORS; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE;

EID: 80052209657     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: 15308561     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2011.171538     Document Type: Editorial

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