Practical challenges related to point of care testing

Practical challenges related to point of care testing

Point of care testing (POCT) refers to laboratory testing that occurs near to the patient, often at the patient bedside. POCT can be advantageous in situations requiring rapid turnaround time of test results for clinical decision making. There are many challenges associated with POCT, mainly related to quality assurance. POCT is performed by clinical staff rather than laboratory trained individ...

Field effect transistor nanobiosensors: State-of-the-art and key challenges as point of care testing devices

The existing health care systems focus on treating diseases rather than preventing them. Patients are generally not tested unless physiological symptoms are appeared. When they do get tested, the results often take several days and can be inconclusive if the disease is at an early stage. In order to facilitate the diagnostics process and make tests more readily available for patients, the conce...

Point-of-care testing in India: missed opportunities to realize the true potential of point-of-care testing programs

BACKGROUND The core objective of any point-of-care (POC) testing program is to ensure that testing will result in an actionable management decision (e.g. referral, confirmatory test, treatment), within the same clinical encounter (e.g. POC continuum). This can but does not have to involve rapid tests. Most studies on POC testing focus on one specific test and disease in a particular healthcare ...

Point-of-Care Testing in Australia The Status, Practical Advantages, and Benefits of Community Resiliency

Point-of-care (POC) testing in community settings in Australia has rapidly evolved during the past decade. The development of large-scale national and statewide community-based POC testing programs have delivered evidence-based outcomes highlighting the analytical quality, the clinical effectiveness, and (where appropriate) the cultural effectiveness of POC testing. The use of community-based P...

Correlation between Standard Clinical Chemistry and Point of Care Testing Analyzers on Hemoglobin A1C Determination