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Point-of-Care Testing

"Point-of-Care Testing" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Allows patient diagnoses in the physician’s office, in other ambulatory setting or at bedside. The results of care are timely, and allow rapid treatment to the patient. (from NIH Fact Sheet Point-of-Care Diagnostic Testing, 2010.)


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Point-of-Care Testing" by people in this website by year, and whether "Point-of-Care Testing" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 16 publications over 8 distinct years, with a maximum of 5 publications in 2019
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