Infection Transmission Associated with Point of Care Testing and the Laboratory's Role in Risk Reduction [0.03%]
床旁检验相关的感染传播及实验室在降低风险方面的作用
Sharon M Geaghan
Sharon M Geaghan
Lack of knowledge and confusion exists regarding safe and appropriate use of blood glucose monitoring equipment. Increasing numbers of diabetics, and exponential growth in blood glucose monitoring presents increased opportunities for infect...
S Karon Brad
S Karon Brad
Glucose meters are a fast and convenient way to measure circulating blood glucose. Like many technologies in healthcare, the use of glucose meters within the hospital has evolved significantly over the last few decades. This change has been...
H B Wu Alan
H B Wu Alan
National and international cardiology guidelines have recommended a 1-hour turnaround time for reporting results of cardiac troponin to emergency department personnel, measured from the time of blood collection to reporting. Use of point-of...
R Tirimacco,P Cowley,A St John et al.
R Tirimacco et al.
H Nichols James
H Nichols James
Point-of-care testing (POCT) is growing in popularity, and with this growth comes an increased chance of errors. Risk management is a way to reduce errors. Originally developed for the manufacturing industry, risk management principles have...
Principles of Point of Care Culture, the Spatial Care Path™, and Enabling Community and Global Resilience: Enabling Community and Global Resilience [0.03%]
赋能社区和全球韧性：以患者为中心的护理理念、空间护理路径TM以及赋能社区和全球韧性原则：赋能社区和全球韧性
J Kost Gerald,J Ferguson William,E Kost Laurie
J Kost Gerald
Goals: This article a) defines point of care (POC) culture; b) presents seven underlying fundamental principles; c) describes the importance of needs assessment; d) introduces a new innovation, the spatial care path™; an...
Estimation of Alert and Change Limits of Haematological Quantities and its Application in the Plausibility Control [0.03%]
血液学定量指标预警和变化界限的估计及其在真实性控制中的应用
Lourdes Sánchez-Navarro,María José Castro-Castro,Dolors Dot-Bach et al.
Lourdes Sánchez-Navarro et al.
Introduction: In the process of quality assurance of the measured values of the clinical laboratory, one of the purposes is to perform the validation of patients' measured values in the most objective way. This validation...
Aidan P Noon,Alexandre R Zlotta
Aidan P Noon
Urothelial bladder cancer is the fourth most prevalent male malignancy in the United States and also one of the ten most lethal. Superficial or non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer has a high rate of recurrence and can progress to muscle inva...
Samy M Mekhail,Peter G Yousef,Stephen W Jackinsky et al.
Samy M Mekhail et al.
Prostate cancer (PCa) is one of the most commonly diagnosed cancers among men but has limited prognostic biomarkers available for follow up. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNAs that regulate expression of their target genes. Accumu...
Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA) Screening and New Biomarkers for Prostate Cancer (PCa) [0.03%]
前列腺癌的前列腺特异性抗原(PSA)筛查和新生物标志物
Carsten Stephan,Harry Rittenhouse,Xinhai Hu et al.
Carsten Stephan et al.
PSA screening reduces PCa-mortality but the disadvantages overdiagnosis and overtreatment require multivariable risk-prediction tools to select appropriate treatment or active surveillance. This review explains the differences between the t...