Primary care clinicians' attitudes towards point-of-care blood testing: A systematic review of qualitative studies

BMC Family Practice

Volumn 14, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Jones, Caroline H D ^a   Howick, Jeremy ^a   Roberts, Nia W ^a   Price, Christopher P ^a   Heneghan, Carl ^a   Plüddemann, Annette ^a   Thompson, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Point of care technology; Primary health care; Qualitative research; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; BLOOD EXAMINATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EUROPE; FACTUAL DATABASE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; MANPOWER; MASS COMMUNICATION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REVIEW; STANDARD; PSYCHOLOGY; STANDARDS;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; AUSTRALIA; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; EUROPE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; HUMANS; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EID: 84882742946     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2296-14-117     Document Type: Article

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