Point-of-Care Systems

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A National Needs Assessment of Point-of-Care Ultrasound Training for Hospitalists. 
  • A Prospective Pilot Study of Pocket-Carried Ultrasound Pre- and Postdischarge Inferior Vena Cava Assessment for Prediction of Heart Failure Rehospitalization. 
  • A Randomized Trial of Pocket-Echocardiography Integrated Mobile Health Device Assessments in Modern Structural Heart Disease Clinics. 
  • A centrifugal fluidic immunoassay for ocular diagnostics with an enzymatically hydrolyzed fluorogenic substrate. 
  • A clinical economics workstation for risk-adjusted health care cost management. 
  • A comparison by medicine residents of physical examination versus hand-carried ultrasound for estimation of right atrial pressure. 
  • A mobile trauma database with charge capture. 
  • A multicenter randomized controlled trial comparing central laboratory and point-of-care cardiac marker testing strategies: the Disposition Impacted by Serial Point of Care Markers in Acute Coronary Syndromes (DISPO-ACS) trial. 
  • A multiobserver study of the effects of including point-of-care patient photographs with portable radiography: a means to detect wrong-patient errors. 
  • A novel point-of-care enoxaparin monitor for use during percutaneous coronary intervention. Results of the Evaluating Enoxaparin Clotting Times (ELECT) Study. 
  • A retrospective study of pulseless electrical activity, bedside ultrasound identifies interventions during resuscitation associated with improved survival to hospital admission. A REASON Study. 
  • A scoping review of person and family engagement in the context of multiple chronic conditions. 
  • ACC expert consensus document. Present use of bedside right heart catheterization in patients with cardiac disease. American College of Cardiology. 
  • Accuracy of continuous jugular bulb oximetry in the intensive care unit. 
  • Adapting a Standardized, Industry-Proven Tool to Measure Patients' Perceptions of Quality at the Point of Care in a PET/CT Center. 
  • Adherence to Measuring What Matters Measures Using Point-of-Care Data Collection Across Diverse Clinical Settings. 
  • American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine expert panel recommendations on point-of-care ultrasound education and training for regional anesthesiologists and pain physicians-part I: clinical indications. 
  • American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine expert panel recommendations on point-of-care ultrasound education and training for regional anesthesiologists and pain physicians-part II: recommendations. 
  • An Integrative Review of Communication Between Parents and Nurses of Hospitalized Technology-Dependent Children 
  • An automated strategy for bedside aPTT determination and unfractionated heparin infusion adjustment in acute coronary syndromes: insights from PARAGON A. 
  • Anterior segment photography in pediatric eyes using the Lytro light field handheld noncontact camera. 
  • Application of lipoarabinomannan antigen in tuberculosis diagnostics: current evidence. 
  • Assessing the Effect of Personalized Diabetes Risk Assessments During Ophthalmologic Visits on Glycemic Control: A Randomized Clinical Trial. 
  • Assessment of Two Diabetes Point-of-care Analyzers Measuring Hemoglobin A1c in the Peruvian Amazon. 
  • Assessment of point-of-care ultrasound training for obstetric anesthesiology Fellows in the USA and Canada: a survey of program directors. 
  • Assessment of relative importance of tablet computer features in supporting direct electronic documentation of encounters by eye care professionals. 
  • Bedside Allogeneic Erythrocyte Washing with a Cell Saver to Remove Cytokines, Chemokines, and Cell-derived Microvesicles. 
  • Bedside Tracheostomy on Pediatric ICU Subjects Supported by Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation. 
  • Bedside markers of coronary artery patency and short-term prognosis of patients with acute myocardial infarction and thrombolysis. 
  • Bedside prediction of increased filling pressure using acoustic electrocardiography. 
  • Bedside renal ultrasound in the evaluation of suspected ureterolithiasis. 
  • Bedside science reduces laboratory art. 
  • Bedside tool for predicting the risk of postoperative dialysis in patients undergoing cardiac surgery. 
  • Better tests, better care: improved diagnostics for infectious diseases. 
  • Bladder Point-of-Care Ultrasound: A Time Saver in the Pediatric Emergency Department. 
  • COVID-19 Diagnosis and SARS-CoV-2 Strain Identification by a Rapid, Multiplexed, Point-of-Care Antibody Microarray. 
  • Cardiac markers: point of care testing. 
  • Challenges With Engaging Military Stakeholders for Clinical Research at the Point of Care in the U.S. Military Health System. 
  • Challenges of development and implementation of point of care pharmacogenetic testing. 
  • Clinical characteristics and in-hospital outcomes of patients with cardiogenic shock undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery: insights from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons National Cardiac Database. 
  • Clinical evaluation of the FreeStyle Precision Pro system. 
  • Clinical utility of the platelet function analyzer (PFA-100) for the assessment of the platelet status in patients with congestive heart failure (EPCOT trial). 
  • Clopidogrel metaboliser status based on point-of-care CYP2C19 genetic testing in patients with coronary artery disease. 
  • Combining multiple contrasts for improving machine learning-based classification of cervical cancers with a low-cost point-of-care Pocket colposcope. 
  • Comparison of hand-carried ultrasound assessment of the inferior vena cava and N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide for predicting readmission after hospitalization for acute decompensated heart failure. 
  • Contactless optical coherence tomography of the eyes of freestanding individuals with a robotic scanner. 
  • Creating ED point-of-care testing protocols: an expert panel and Delphi process. 
  • Creation and use of a survey instrument for comparing mobile computing devices. 
  • Cryptococcosis diagnosis and treatment: What do we know now. 
  • Current Controversies in Caring for the Critically Ill Pulmonary Embolism Patient. 
  • Current use and training needs of point-of-care ultrasound in emergency departments: A national survey of VA hospitals. 
  • Design of a Novel Low Cost Point of Care Tampon (POCkeT) Colposcope for Use in Resource Limited Settings. 
  • Determination of non-Vitamin K oral anticoagulant (NOAC) effects using a new-generation thrombelastography TEG 6s system. 
  • Development of Algorithms for Automated Detection of Cervical Pre-Cancers With a Low-Cost, Point-of-Care, Pocket Colposcope. 
  • Development of systems of care for ST-elevation myocardial infarction patients: gaps, barriers, and implications. 
  • Development of systems of care for ST-elevation myocardial infarction patients: the primary percutaneous coronary intervention (ST-elevation myocardial infarction-receiving) hospital perspective. 
  • Development, deployment and usability of a point-of-care decision support system for chronic disease management using the recently-approved HL7 decision support service standard. 
  • Diagnostic Point-of-Care Ultrasound: Recommendations From an Expert Panel. 
  • Diagnostic accuracy of leptospirosis whole-cell lateral flow assays: a systematic review and meta-analysis. 
  • Direct comparison of a tablet computer and a personal digital assistant for point-of-care documentation in eye care. 
  • Does distance modify the effect of self-testing in oral anticoagulation? 
  • Does the clinical examination predict lower extremity peripheral arterial disease? 
  • Does this adult patient have a blunt intra-abdominal injury? 
  • Does this patient have delirium?: value of bedside instruments. 
  • Early identification of uncontrolled hemorrhage after trauma: current status and future direction. 
  • Editorial commentary: telephone consultation for Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia: opening Pandora's box. 
  • Effectiveness of topic-specific infobuttons: a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Emergency department point-of-care ultrasound in out-of-hospital and in-ED cardiac arrest. 
  • Evaluation of malaria rapid diagnostic test (RDT) use by community health workers: a longitudinal study in western Kenya. 
  • Evaluation of optic nerve development in preterm and term infants using handheld spectral-domain optical coherence tomography. 
  • Evidence-Based Medicine Approach to Abdominal Pain. 
  • Feasibility of point-of-care echocardiography by internal medicine house staff. 
  • First report of the point-of-care TEG: A technical validation study of the TEG-6S system. 
  • From Ruling Out to Ruling In: Putting POCUS in Focus. 
  • Fully printed prothrombin time sensor for point-of-care testing. 
  • Fungal infections in HIV/AIDS. 
  • Goal-directed coagulation management in the perioperative period of cardiac surgery. 
  • HANDHELD SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY IMAGING THROUGH THE UNDILATED PUPIL IN INFANTS BORN PRETERM OR WITH HYPOXIC INJURY OR HYDROCEPHALUS. 
  • Hand-carried cardiac ultrasound (HCU) device: recommendations regarding new technology. A report from the Echocardiography Task Force on New Technology of the Nomenclature and Standards Committee of the American Society of Echocardiography. 
  • Hand-held echocardiographic examination of patients with symptoms of acute coronary syndromes in the emergency department: the 30-day outcome associated with normal left ventricular wall motion. 
  • How Should We Use Patient-Reported Outcome Measures at the Point of Care in Hand Surgery? 
  • How the past teaches the future: ACMI distinguished lecture. 
  • Identification of design features to enhance utilization and acceptance of systems for Internet-based decision support at the point of care. 
  • Identifying and overcoming obstacles to point-of-care data collection for eye care professionals. 
  • Identifying barriers to hypertension guideline adherence using clinician feedback at the point of care. 
  • Imaging in Suspected Renal Colic: Systematic Review of the Literature and Multispecialty Consensus. 
  • Improving health care efficiency and quality using tablet personal computers to collect research-quality, patient-reported data. 
  • Infobuttons at Intermountain Healthcare: utilization and infrastructure. 
  • Infrared imaging of trauma patients for detection of acute compartment syndrome of the leg. 
  • Inkjet-printed point-of-care immunoassay on a nanoscale polymer brush enables subpicomolar detection of analytes in blood. 
  • Inorganic Complexes and Metal-Based Nanomaterials for Infectious Disease Diagnostics. 
  • Integration of a computer-based patient record system into the primary care setting. 
  • Integration of clinical decision support with on-line encounter documentation for well child care at the point of care. 
  • Interchangeability of activated clotting time values across different point-of-care systems. 
  • International Image Concordance Study to Compare a Point-of-Care Tampon Colposcope With a Standard-of-Care Colposcope. 
  • Introducing a module for laboratory test order entry and reporting of results at a hospital ward: an evaluation study using a multi-method approach. 
  • Knowledge management strategies: Enhancing knowledge transfer to clinicians and patients. 
  • Laboratory process improvement through point-of-care testing. 
  • Logistics of perioperative diagnostic point-of-care ultrasound: nomenclature, scope of practice, training, credentialing/privileging, and billing. 
  • Long-Term Impact of an Electronic Health Record-Enabled, Team-Based, and Scalable Population Health Strategy Based on the Chronic Care Model. 
  • MACULAR PSEUDO-HOLE IN SHAKEN BABY SYNDROME: UNDERSCORING THE UTILITY OF OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY UNDER ANESTHESIA. 
  • Macular findings in healthy full-term Hispanic newborns observed by hand-held spectral-domain optical coherence tomography. 
  • Management of adolescents and adults with febrile illness in resource limited areas. 
  • Mapping the Ultrasound Landscape to Define Point-of-Care Ultrasound and Diagnostic Ultrasound: A Proposal From the Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound and ACR Commission on Ultrasound. 
  • Microfluidic platform versus conventional real-time polymerase chain reaction for the detection of Mycoplasma pneumoniae in respiratory specimens. 
  • Monitoring Oxygen Status. 
  • Monitoring recombinant factor VIIa treatment: efficacy depends on high levels of fibrinogen in a model of severe dilutional coagulopathy. 
  • Multicenter Pivotal Clinical Trial of Urine Malaria Test for Rapid Diagnosis of Plasmodium falciparum Malaria. 
  • Nurses' satisfaction with medication administration point-of-care technology. 
  • Overcoming obstacles to collecting narrative data from eye care professionals at the point-of-care. 
  • Patient blood management: key for accountable care organizations. 
  • Perioperative Point-of-Care Ultrasound: From Concept to Application. 
  • Pharmacist-managed international normalized ratio patient self-testing is associated with increased time in therapeutic range in patients with left ventricular assist devices at an academic medical center. 
  • Pharmacogenetic guidance for antiplatelet treatment. 
  • Plasmonic assay for amplification-free cancer biomarkers detection in clinical tissue samples. 
  • Platelet reactivity and clinical outcomes after coronary artery implantation of drug-eluting stents (ADAPT-DES): a prospective multicentre registry study. 
  • Point of care devices for assessing bleeding and coagulation in the trauma patient. 
  • Point-Of-Care Ultrasound Screening for Proximal Lower Extremity Deep Venous Thrombosis. 
  • Point-of-Care Complexity Screening Algorithm to Identify Children With Medical Complexity. 
  • Point-of-Care Laboratory Data Collection During Critical Care Transport. 
  • Point-of-Care Lung Ultrasound in Adults: Image Acquisition. 
  • Point-of-Care Rapid-Seeding Ventricular Assist Device with Blood-Derived Endothelial Cells to Create a Living Antithrombotic Coating. 
  • Point-of-Care Ultrasound Abnormalities in Late-Onset Severe Preeclampsia: Prevalence and Association With Serum Albumin and Brain Natriuretic Peptide. 
  • Point-of-Care Ultrasound to Identify Landmarks of the Proximal Humerus: Potential Use for Intraosseous Vascular Access. 
  • Point-of-care antimicrobial coating protects orthopaedic implants from bacterial challenge. 
  • Point-of-care diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis in non-neutropenic patients: Aspergillus Galactomannan Lateral Flow Assay versus Aspergillus-specific Lateral Flow Device test in bronchoalveolar lavage. 
  • Point-of-care platelet function analysis ready for prime time? 
  • Point-of-care seeding of nitinol stents with blood-derived endothelial cells. 
  • Point-of-care testing of the international normalized ratio in patients with antiphospholipid antibodies. 
  • Point-of-care washing of allogeneic red blood cells for the prevention of transfusion-related respiratory complications (WAR-PRC): a protocol for a multicenter randomised clinical trial in patients undergoing cardiac surgery. 
  • Portable Pocket colposcopy performs comparably to standard-of-care clinical colposcopy using acetic acid and Lugol's iodine as contrast mediators: an investigational study in Peru. 
  • Postpartum hemorrhage management in 2012: predicting the future. 
  • Predicting proper endotracheal tube placement in underexposed radiographs: tangent line of the aortic arch. 
  • Prediction of Polyp Pathology Using Convolutional Neural Networks Achieves "Resect and Discard" Thresholds. 
  • Progress in point-of-care laboratory testing for assessing platelet function. 
  • Prospective evaluation of novice-acquired three-dimensional point-of-care ultrasound for carotid stenosis. 
  • Providing Rapid Out of Hospital Acute Cardiovascular Treatment 3 (PROACT-3). 
  • Providing Rapid Out of Hospital Acute Cardiovascular Treatment 4 (PROACT-4). 
  • Quantifying nursing workflow in medication administration. 
  • Racial variation in optic nerve head parameters quantified in healthy newborns by handheld spectral domain optical coherence tomography. 
  • Radial artery pulse pressure variation correlates with brachial artery peak velocity variation in ventilated subjects when measured by internal medicine residents using hand-carried ultrasound devices. 
  • Rapid staining and imaging of subnuclear features to differentiate between malignant and benign breast tissues at a point-of-care setting. 
  • Real-time application of continuous 12-lead ST-segment monitoring: 3 case studies. 
  • Real-time, computer-assisted quantification of plus disease in retinopathy of prematurity at the bedside. 
  • Relationship between time in therapeutic range and comparative treatment effect of rivaroxaban and warfarin: results from the ROCKET AF trial. 
  • Repeated therapeutic lumbar punctures in cryptococcal meningitis - necessity and/or opportunity? 
  • Reply to Letter: Letter to the Editor regarding Gaspari and colleague's "Emergency department point-of-care ultrasound in out-of-hospital and in-ED cardiac arrest". 
  • Resistance diagnosis and the changing epidemiology of antibiotic resistance. 
  • Resistance diagnostics as a public health tool to combat antibiotic resistance: A model-based evaluation. 
  • Resistance to antiplatelet drugs: current status and future research. 
  • Risk stratification with a point-of-care cardiac troponin T test in acute myocardial infarction. GUSTOIII Investigators. Global Use of Strategies To Open Occluded Coronary Arteries. 
  • Role of diagnostic point-of-care ultrasound in preoperative optimization: a narrative review. 
  • Screening for structural heart disease: time to stop listening and start looking. 
  • Sensitive DNA detection and SNP discrimination using ultrabright SERS nanorattles and magnetic beads for malaria diagnostics. 
  • Smartphone Enabled Point-of-Care Detection of Serum Biomarkers. 
  • Suitability of capillary blood glucose analysis in patients receiving vasopressors. 
  • Teaching at the Bedside. Maximal Impact in Minimal Time. 
  • Technologies for Frugal and Sensitive Point-of-Care Immunoassays. 
  • Technology and monitoring patients at the bedside. 
  • Technology: Is There Sufficient Evidence to Change Practice in Point-of-Care Management of Coagulopathy? 
  • The Matrix Metalloproteinase 9 Point-of-Care Test in Dry Eye. 
  • The Medication Administration System--Nurses Assessment of Satisfaction (MAS-NAS) scale. 
  • The ORBIT bleeding score: a simple bedside score to assess bleeding risk in atrial fibrillation. 
  • The effects of MDCO-2010, a serine protease inhibitor, on activated clotting time in blood obtained from volunteers and cardiac surgical patients. 
  • The effects of bedside blood gas monitoring on blood loss and ventilator management. 
  • The kaolin-activated Thrombelastograph predicts bleeding after cardiac surgery. 
  • The usage patterns of cardiac bedside markers employing point-of-care testing for troponin in non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndrome: results from CRUSADE. 
  • Timing of Coronary Bypass Surgery in Patients Receiving Clopidogrel: The Role of VerifyNow. 
  • Toward precision prescribing for methadone: Determinants of methadone deposition. 
  • Towards use of POCUS to evaluate hemodynamics in critically ill neonates: caution before adoption in this population. 
  • Transabdominal duplex ultrasonography for bedside inferior vena cava filter placement: examples, technique, and review. 
  • Translating neuroscience to the front lines: point-of-care detection of neuropsychiatric disorders. 
  • UNUSUAL FINDING ON POINT-OF-CARE RIGHT UPPER QUADRANT ULTRASOUND. 
  • Ultrarobust Biochips with Metal-Organic Framework Coating for Point-of-Care Diagnosis. 
  • Ultrasensitive point-of-care immunoassay for secreted glycoprotein detects Ebola infection earlier than PCR. 
  • Ultrasound for Lower Extremity Deep Venous Thrombosis: Multidisciplinary Recommendations From the Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound Consensus Conference. 
  • Understanding the Complexities of Cirrhosis. 
  • Upping the Game on Validating Automatic Quality Management Systems for Blood Gas and Critical Care Test Analyzers. 
  • Usability and Acceptability of the QDACT-PC, an Electronic Point-of-Care System for Standardized Quality Monitoring in Palliative Care. 
  • Usability evaluation at the point-of-care: a method to identify user information needs in CPOE applications. 
  • Use of bedside activated partial thromboplastin time monitor to adjust heparin dosing after thrombolysis for acute myocardial infarction: results of GUSTO-I. Global Utilization of Streptokinase and TPA for Occluded Coronary Arteries. 
  • Use of on-site testing for drugs of abuse. 
  • Usefulness of hand-carried ultrasound to predict elevated left ventricular filling pressure. 
  • User interface considerations for collecting data at the point of care in the tablet PC computing environment. 
  • Utility of Daily Mobile Tablet Use for Residents on an Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery Inpatient Service. 
  • Utility of a bedside acoustic cardiographic model to predict elevated left ventricular filling pressure. 
  • Validation of a quality assessment system for blood gas and electrolyte testing. 
  • What works. Surgeons generate "clean bills" from the point of care. 
  • Would the Use of Bedside Bladder Ultrasound Decrease the Necessity of Invasive Bladder Catheterization in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit? 
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  Keywords of People

  • Alexander, John Hunter Peel, Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Cardiology
  • Farsiu, Sina, Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • O'Connor, Christopher Michael, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology
  • Stinnett, Sandra Sue, Associate Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Toth, Cynthia Ann, Joseph A.C. Wadsworth Distinguished Professor of Ophthalmology, Biomedical Engineering