Selected article for: "diagnostic testing and infection diagnostic testing"

Author: Suntharalingam, Ganesh; Cousins, Jonathan; Gattas, David; Chapman, Martin
Title: Scanning the horizon: emerging hospital-wide technologies and their impact on critical care
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  • Document date: 2005_1_13
  • ID: xiv9vxdp
    Snippet: This commentary represents a selective survey of developments relevant to critical care. Selected themes include advances in point-of-care diagnostic testing, glucose control, novel microbiological diagnostics and infection control measures, and developments in information technology that have implications for intensive care. The latter encompasses an early example of an artificially intelligent clinical decision support mechanism, the introduction of a national health care information technolog
    Document: This commentary represents a selective survey of developments relevant to critical care. Selected themes include advances in point-of-care diagnostic testing, glucose control, novel microbiological diagnostics and infection control measures, and developments in information technology that have implications for intensive care. The latter encompasses an early example of an artificially intelligent clinical decision support mechanism, the introduction of a national health care information technology programme (UK NPfIT) and its implications, and exotic threats to patient safety due to emergent behaviour in complex information systems.

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