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Joan Pearson

Point-of-care-testing and Clinical Governance

Keywords: clinical effectiveness, Clinical Governance, outcomes, point-of-care-testing (POCT), quality, risk management

Clinical Governance is a quality framework encompassing risk management, clinical and cost effectiveness, and patient outcomes. These principles apply to point-of-care testing (POCT), which is becoming widely used within hospitals and the community. Formal regulation of POCT is variable throughout the world, but it is vital that the principles of clinical governance are followed in the implementation and management of POCT and laboratory professionals have a responsibility to advise users of POCT accordingly.

Clinical Chemical Laboratory Medicine, Walter de Gruyter

Print ISSN: 1434-6621
Volume: 44, 06/2006
Pages: 765 - 767

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