Point-of-care testing in a high-income country paediatric emergency department: a qualitative study in Sweden.

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Objectives

In many resource-limited health systems, point-of-care tests (POCTs) are the only means for clinical patient sample analyses. However, the speed and simplicity of POCTs also makes their use appealing to clinicians in high-income countries (HICs), despite greater laboratory accessibility. Although also part of the clinical routine in HICs, clinician perceptions of the utility of POCTs are relatively unknown in such settings as compared with others. In a Swedish paediatric emergency department (PED) where POCT use is routine, we aimed to characterise healthcare providers' perspectives on the clinical utility of POCTs and explore their implementation in the local setting; to discuss and compare such perspectives, to those reported in other settings; and finally, to gather r

SUBMITTER: Rasti R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8627407 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature