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Article: Point-of-care products: highlights, trends, and emerging technologies: point-of-care testing aims to improve health care with quick turnaround times.(testing diagnostics)
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- Clinical Lab Products
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- September 1, 2009
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Point-of-care (POC) diagnostics is a rapidly accelerating field in laboratory diagnostics with the trends focused primarily on tests that accelerate test results, improve clinical intervention, and ultimately improve patient health care. Major players in this field focus on areas such as diabetes detection and management, cardiology, urinalysis, and blood gas.
The main features of any POC kit must include an easy-to-use system with easy-to-interpret results in a quick turnaround time such that data from the patients to the clinician yields a fast medical plan of action. In the case of coronary syndrome diagnosis, the use of ...