Point-of-care testing performed by healthcare professionals outside the hospital setting: consensus based recommendations from the IFCC Committee on Point-of-Care Testing (IFCC C-POCT)

Affiliations

• ¹ Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
• ² Department of Clinical Pathology, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.
• ³ EJ Consulting LLC, Newark, USA.
• ⁴ Medical Pathology, School of Medicine, University of California-Davis, Davis, CA, USA.
• ⁵ Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre (Jeddah Branch), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
• ⁶ Klinicka biochemia a imunochemia, Analyticko-diagnosticke laboratorium, s.r.o. Presov, Slovakia.
• ⁷ Division of Biochemistry, Eastern Ontario Regional Laboratories Association and Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
• ⁸ Department of Clinical Chemistry, Sestre Milosrdnice University Hospital Center, Zagreb, Croatia.
• ⁹ Department of Medical Biology and Pathology, Site Saint-Antoine, University Hospital Paris East, AP-HP, Paris, France.
• ¹⁰ Clinical Pathology, La Paz University Hospital, Madrid, Spain.
• ¹¹ New Medical Sensors, Abbott Laboratories, Alameda, CA, USA.
• ¹² Sensor Development, CH-Werfen and Instrumentation Laboratory, Bedford, MA, USA.
• ¹³ Division of Chemical Pathology, University of Stellenbosch, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.
• ¹⁴ Association of Clinical Biochemists in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.
• ¹⁵ Chemical Pathology, Waitemata District Health Board, Takapuna, New Zealand.
• ¹⁶ Noklus, The Norwegian Organization for Quality Improvement of Laboratory Examinations, Haraldsplass Diakonale Sykehus AS, Bergen, Norway.