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Articles and journal scans about Information management
Article
April 2006
Reporting calculated GFR from serum creatinine
The National Kidney Disease Education Program (NKDEP)
Laboratory Working Group reviewed problems related to serum
creatinine measurement for estimating glomerular filtration rate
(GFR) and prepared recommendations to standardize and improve
creatinine measurement.
The NKDEP recommends using the estimating equation...
Information management
Glucose
Creatinine/urea
Kidneys/fluids
Article
October 2005
Patient safety: tested tools for error reduction
Laboratorians need to take ownership of errors,
identifying, analyzing and reducing them, thereby increasing
patient safety.
A Client Services Department, customer care
representatives, a service improvement coordinator, “morning
report”, electronic error tracking and reporting mechanisms,
point-of-care support...
Point-of-care testing
Information management
Process optimization
Glucose
D-dimer
Article
May 2005
Patient safety: Find the error behind the error
Lately, everybody seems to be talking about reducing
testing errors and improving patient safety. But where do you
begin?
The answer may be to look beyond the error itself and
instead focus on what is causing it. Michael Astion, Associate
Professor, Director of the University of Washington’s Reference
Laboratory...
Information management
Point-of-care testing
Process optimization
Article
April 2005
Make document management user-friendly
In 1998, Fleury Diagnostics, Brazil's most comprehensive center for diagnostic medicine and pathology with 1,600 employees and 2,500 patients a day, implemented its own system for managing documents necessary for certification and point-of-care testing (POCT) programs. The system was entirely developed in-house in the ...
Process optimization
Information management
Article
April 2005
POCT data mining – an introduction
Point-of-care testing (POCT) results, like other forms
of laboratory data, hold potential hidden information that can be
utilized to improve patient care.
The technique of extracting
useful information from vast amounts of data is termed “data
mining”. Technological solutions are now available to meet the
challenges ...
Point-of-care testing
Information management
Preanalytical phase
Process optimization
Glucose
Creatinine/urea
Hemoglobins
Article
March 2005
POCT data mining – a practical approach
Simple data-mining algorithms can be applied to
point-of-care testing (POCT) data to document compliance of quality
control, operator training and to identify potential preanalytical
errors.
Data can be manipulated to automate manual review and other
laborious processes for identifying data trends, verifying...
Point-of-care testing
Information management
Preanalytical phase
Process optimization
Creatinine/urea
Glucose
Article
October 2004
Overcoming the limitations of barcode technology
The introduction of armband barcode scanning
capabilities to point-of-care glucose testing devices has been
shown to greatly reduce patient identification errors. Barcodes
may be scanned to identify operators, patient identification
and reagents. Barcode scanning, however, does not eliminate all
errors, and in some...
Information management
Glucose
Preanalytical phase
Process optimization
Article
May 2003
Patient ID barcoding - aspects to consider when im
Identification of products by barcode has been utilized by industry and business for over 30 years. The use of barcodes in the hospital setting is also well established, but in the patient environment, hospitals are still behind industry. For Point-of-Care Testing (POCT), barcodes are highly desirable. Deanna Bogner, ...
Preanalytical phase
Information management
Point-of-care testing
Process optimization
Article
May 2003
STAT testing in the future
Since the mid 1990's Point of Care Testing (POCT) has been viewed as a solution to a declared need for Short Turn Around Testing (STAT).
However, is it being utilized in a way that meets the needs of improving patient care and hospital quality assurance? What is STAT testing, why and how did it become POCT? How is...
Process optimization
Point-of-care testing
Information management
Glucose
Creatinine/urea
Article
April 2003
Standardizing is the key to effective POCT
According to the Hvidovre Hospital, standardizing is a must
if POCT is to run optimally. In the first article of the series
"POCT setups for blood gas", acutecaretesting.org interviews
the Danish hospital on how they have successfully implemented
POCT.
Point-of-care testing
Information management
Process optimization
Glucose
Hemoglobins
Troponins