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Guides written for the people who run the bench.
Short, factual and standards-based. Each one is something a POCT coordinator or quality manager could take into a meeting, with the clause numbers and protocols named.
How to verify a new POCT analyser
A practical, standards-based sequence for verifying a new point-of-care analyser before patient use: precision (CLSI EP15, EP05), method comparison (EP09), linearity (EP06), detection limits (EP17), reference-interval transference (EP28), acceptance criteria, documentation and sign-off under ISO 15189:2022.
Read the guide →Westgard rules explained for POCT teams
What each Westgard rule detects, which kind of error it points to, how rules combine into a multirule, how sigma decides which rules you need, and what to do on the ward when one fires. Written for point-of-care coordinators and quality managers.
Read the guide →ISO 15189:2022 for POCT: what changed
ISO 15189:2022 withdrew ISO 22870 and brought point-of-care testing inside the laboratory standard through a normative Annex A. What moved, what is new (risk-based thinking, ensuring validity of results, competence), and the records POCT services are now asked to show.
Read the guide →Deeper reading
The reference guides on the resources hub.
The buyer's guide
Eight questions to ask any POCT connectivity supplier.
Nine pages, vendor-neutral, with the arithmetic labelled as illustrative wherever it appears.
Get the POCT connectivity buyer's guide
Nine pages, vendor-neutral: what connectivity is, the standards in plain English, the cost of doing it by hand and eight questions to ask any supplier. The PDF also opens directly from the downloads page; leave an email only if you want it in your inbox.
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