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Near-Patient Testing: Quality of Laboratory Test Results Obtained by Non-technical Personnel in a Decentralized Setting
- Source :
- American Journal of Clinical Pathology. 89:797-801
- Publication Year :
- 1988
- Publisher :
- Oxford University Press (OUP), 1988.
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Abstract
- The authors evaluated the quality and reliability of four desktop analyzers in the outpatient clinic. Twenty-seven nontechnologists (NTs) participated in the study. These included nurses, physicians, and medical students. The instruments and tests evaluated were as follows: Reflotron (glucose, cholesterol, triglycerides, gamma-glutamyltransferase and urea); Seralyzer (creatinine, glucose, potassium, aspartate aminotransferase, and hemoglobin); Vision (glucose, urea, cholesterol, triglycerides, alkaline phosphatase, and uric acid); and DT60 (sodium, potassium, glucose, amylase, uric acid, bilirubin, and creatinine). For precision studies, low and high control material was used, and method comparison was done with methods in routine use in the laboratory. The range of coefficients of variation (CVs) for the analyzers with NTs was as follows: Reflotron: CV, 2.4-7.9%; Seralyzer CV, 1.4-18.7%; Vision: CV, 1.5-2.7%; DT60: CV, 2.5-46.8. The percentage results that is different by greater than 10% between the NTs and trained technologists was related to the complexicity of procedure for each analyzer and was the lowest for the Vision analyzer and greatest for the Seralyzer.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Creatinine
Students, Medical
business.industry
Bilirubin
Nurses
General Medicine
Surgery
Laboratory test
chemistry.chemical_compound
chemistry
Physicians
Internal medicine
Near patient testing
Urea
Humans
Medicine
Uric acid
Outpatient clinic
Control material
business
Blood Chemical Analysis
Quality of Health Care
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19437722 and 00029173
- Volume :
- 89
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- American Journal of Clinical Pathology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....812c8df3c1c99040f285018ebcc6a71d