Instant inspection

Author: Chief Editor Zhao Weiguo
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Publish Date: 2007-02-01
Features: With the advent of the POCT era, "portability," "sensitivity," and "immediacy" have become its defining characteristics. Medical laboratory professionals should be mentally and technically prepared for this new era. Although the cost of a single POCT test exceeds that of a central laboratory's individual test, its convenience, efficiency, and speed significantly shorten the workflow chain and drastically reduce error rates, making it highly cost-effective. This makes POCT a rapidly expanding testing model. At the same time, the design of POCT-related instruments is relatively simple, with lower requirements for research and production, which provides an opportunity for the development of China's medical diagnostics industry. This could potentially propel China's in vitro diagnostics industry onto the international stage. The purpose of this book is to raise awareness of POCT among hospital management at all levels, departmental staff, and particularly those in the laboratory, with the goal of effectively utilizing this powerful medical testing tool through learning, understanding, and practice. The key features of Point-of-Care Testing (POCT) lie in achieving accurate results in the shortest time possible using simple and economical methods. It represents a future direction for medical laboratory testing in the 21st century and has already seen increasingly widespread application. This book is co-authored by dozens of experts and scholars in laboratory medicine and related fields, aiming to systematically and deeply educate medical laboratory professionals, clinical workers, medical researchers, hospital managers, and other professionals in the pharmaceutical field about POCT, thereby promoting its development. The book revolves around POCT, covering its history and current status, major technical principles and products, economic value analysis, quality management, current clinical applications, existing problems, and potential solutions, providing readers with many valuable references.