OBJECTIVE To assess the utility of a point-of-care (POC) capillary blood glucose measurement as compared with routine clinical parameters in predicting undiagnosed diabetes in a low-resource rural India setting. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Nine hundred and ninety-four participants aged >30 years and stratified by age and sex were randomly selected from 20 villages in India. A clinical questio...

INTRODUCTION Early initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in eligible pregnant women is a key intervention for prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV. However, in many settings in sub-Saharan Africa where ART-eligibility is determined by CD4 cell counts, limited access to laboratories presents a significant barrier to rapid ART initiation. Point-of-care (POC) CD4 cell cou...

INTRODUCTION Inflammatory responses following tissue injury are essential for proper tissue regeneration. However, dysfunctional or repetitive inflammatory tissue assaults can lead to poor tissue regeneration and ultimate tissue failure via fibrosis. Previous attempts at urinary bladder tissue regeneration utilizing polymeric and biologic scaffolding materials tended to elicit these responses l...

Background: Platinum-based pre-operative chemotherapy (POC) for muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) increases the complete pathological response rate at cystectomy and improves overall survival. However, 60% of MIBC patients still has muscle-invasive disease at cystectomy despite POC. Therefore, accurate prediction of response to POC is an important clinical need. We hypothesized that an elev...

Title of Document:TRANSPORT, SOURCES, AND QUALITY OFSESTON IN A PIEDMONT HEADWATERSTREAMDavid Charles Richardson, Doctor of Philosophy2008Directed By:Dr. Margaret Palmer, Marine, Estuarine andEnvironmental Science, Chesapeake BiologicalLaboratoryDr. Louis A. Kaplan, Stroud Water ResearchCenter Streams transport and process particulate organic carbon (...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Point-of-care (POC) ultrasound is increasingly used by clinicians across multiple medical specialties. Current perceptions and prevalence of POC ultrasound practice and training in family medicine residency programs has not been described. METHODS Questions were included in the 2014 Council of Academic Family Medicine Educational Research Alliance (CERA) survey of fa...

BACKGROUND Point-of-care (POC) C-reactive protein (CRP) testing is increasingly used in primary care to assist general practitioners (GPs) in the diagnostic workup for various complaints. The present study compares analytical performance, agreement and user-friendliness of five of these POC CRP tests. METHODS The following five POC CRP tests were evaluated: Afinion and NycoCard Reader II (bot...

Large-eddy simulations of a pocket of open cells (POC) based on VOCALS Regional Experiment (REx) NSF C-130 Research Flight 06 are analyzed and compared with aircraft observations. A doubly-periodic domain 192 km× 24 km with 125 m horizontal and 5 m vertical grid spacing near the capping inversion is used. The POC is realized in the model as a fixed 96 km wide region of reduced cloud droplet num...

BACKGROUND In clinical trials, the potential of point-of-care (POC) C-reactive protein (CRP) tests was demonstrated in decreasing antibiotic prescribing in adults with acute cough in general practice, but effects of implementation are unknown. OBJECTIVE To determine the overall effect of POC CRP testing on antibiotic prescribing rate in general practice. METHODS In an observational study, G...