Twenty-six (1.7%) of 1551 papers met our four inclusion criteria: 1) implemented a point-of-use water treatment intervention, 2) applied a behavioral intervention, 3) evaluated behavior change as the outcome, and 4) occurred in a low- or medium-development country.
This study implemented and evaluated a point-of-care, wireless Internet access using smart phones for information retrieval during daily clinical rounds and academic activities of internal medicine residents in a community hospital.
"It would be unavoidable, inevitable, for us and I think for many of us in Europe to follow the same proposals to implement a points system also in the rest of the European Union," he told BBC News.
However a performance comparison with other applications that implement a conventional point-of-view refinement may offer valuable insight.
He also says that Joe Manchin and Pat Toomey never made a public policy argument for their bill -- but the policy argument was the one that was had when background checks were implemented at points-of-purchase in the first place.
External quality assurance (EQA) programmes, which are routinely used in laboratories, have not been widely implemented for point-of- care tests (POCTs).
For this reason, we implemented a large number of attribute-based, point-based and other methods; we extracted observable attributes from occluded blobs, in particular, the duration of the occlusion and its minimum number of pixels (providing information about a 'maximal degree of occlusion') turned out to provide good occlusion characterizations.
Despite having lower sensitivity compared to the Xpert MTB/RIF assay [ 12], the main advantages of the Determine TB-LAM test are its simplicity of use, lack of instrumentation, speed of use with results available after 25 minutes, low cost (initially marketed at $3.50 per test) and the fact that it has the potential to be implemented at the point-of-care.
Today Revel announced a deal with Shell, the oil and gas giant, to implement its point-of-sale system across its retail network of gas stations globally.
In an attempt to decrease medication errors and improve safety practices, from 2003 through 2007 the study investigators partnered with five Midwestern nursing homes in implementing electronic point-of-care medication administration records (eMARs) and focused quality improvement (QI) efforts.
Finally, from the perspective of clinic administrators, implementing routine point-of-care UDS would require additional personnel and lab space.
