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Category
Standard
Type
Standard
Version
2
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
2021
This standard sets out the minimum requirements for governance, management systems, staff training, safety, environmental issues, and specimen and result integrity related to the performance of point of care testing. It describes the key steps needed to ensure users of point of care technology provide safe, quality-assured testing, especially when the results will be used for a patient's healthcare management.

Main sections:

- Governance

- Management system

- Training and competency

- Pre-analytical considerations (before the test)

- Analytical considerations (during the test)

- Post-analytical considerations (after the test)

- Environment

- Workplace health and safety

- Implementing and maintaining point of care testing (informative)

- Common errors related to point of care testing (informative)

- RACGP standards for point of care testing (5th edition, normative)
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