Gli esami urgenti nel consolidamento dei laboratori: analisi decentrate, “Point-of-Care and Near-Patient testing”

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ABSTRACT

Urgent testing and laboratory consolidation: Extra-laboratory, Point-of-care and Near-Patient testing.

Urgenttests requesting is variable across different institutions in the same country and at international level. The percentageof urgent testing has been found to be about 33% in Italy, but only some of these tests are really related to clinicalneeds. Various reports are available to document the growth of extra-laboratory testing, otherwise referred to as nearpatient, bedside or Point-of-Care testing (POCT). The key objective of extra-laboratory testing, particularly POCT, isto generate a result quickly so that appropriate treatment can be implemented rapidly, but few data are available todemonstrate an effective improvement in operational and clinical outcomes. This paper sets out the requirements fordelivering an effective extra-laboratory testing by reviewing the data of the literature as well as the performancespecifications for assuring quality and patient safety.

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