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Articles and journal scans about Point-of-care testing
Article
July 2006
Doctor testing and competency for POCT
As point-of-care testing (POCT) continues to expand in
the hospital environment, the desire of physicians to participate
in the performance of testing may increase. This article discusses
the required competencies for a physician who wishes to be involved
in laboratory testing and some practical considerations for...
Information management
Point-of-care testing
Article
April 2006
Systemwide implementation of glycemic control
Clinical initiatives to maintain blood glucose (BG)
within a more normal range have emerged over the last decade as a
growing trend in clinical management of patients in acute care
settings. This trend has grown due to the increased focus of
research in glycemic control (GC) and results indicating that GC is...
Point-of-care testing
Glucose
Article
January 2006
Preventing error in POCT with effective policies and procedures
Effectively written policies and procedures can help
contribute to an error-free POCT program. Sentara Healthcare has
incorporated policy and procedure development into their safety
program. It is coined Focus & Simplify and is about improving
the effectiveness of work processes and procedure
documentation.
Through ...
Point-of-care testing
Preanalytical phase
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
June 2005
Activity-based costing: selecting the right equipment for POC
As point-of-care testing (POCT) becomes more popular in
healthcare institutions because of its ability to deliver
high-quality results at the bedside, point-of-care coordinators
(POCCs) are becoming increasingly tasked with controlling costs.
To
deal with this responsibility, POCCs often turn to equipment to
solve...
Point-of-care testing
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
Behind the glucose protocol
In 2001, Belgian professor Greet Van den Berghe, PhD, and her colleagues at the Leuven University Hospital began a small revolution with the publication of the 2001 study “Intensive insulin therapy in critically ill patients”.
According to the study, tighter glucose control based on insulin therapy lowered rates of...
Glucose
Point-of-care testing
Journal Scan
April 2005
Point-of-care testing reduces transfusion in neonates
Preterm, very-low-birth-weight babies require intensive
laboratory testing, including frequent blood gas analysis, during
the first few weeks of life. It has been estimated that the weekly
blood loss associated with phlebotomy for blood testing can amount
to as much as 30 % of the total blood volume of these tiny,...
Neonatology
Point-of-care testing
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