Point of Care Testing Trial Report - Executive Summary
The Point of Care Testing (PoCT) in General Practice Trial was an Australian Government funded multi-centre, cluster randomised controlled trial (RCT), to investigate and evaluate the safety, clinical effectiveness cost effectiveness and satisfaction of PoCT in a general practice environment. This is the executive summary of the Point of Care Testing Trial Report
Table of contents
Point of Care Testing in general practice: trial final report, January 2009
Prepared on behalf of the Trial Management and Evaluation Group by:
Caroline Laurence
Angela Gialamas
Lisa Yelland
Tanya Bubner
Briony Glastonbury
Justin Beilby
and Members of the Evaluation Working Group
Prepared on behalf of the PoCT Device Group by:
Mark Shephard
Prepared on behalf of RCPA Quality Assurance Programs Pty Ltd by:
Janice Gill
The Point of Care Testing in General Practice Trial was funded by the
Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Program/Initiatives
- Review of Funding of Pathology Services
- Review of Funding of Pathology - Submissions to Final Discussion Paper
- Review of Funding of Pathology - Submissions
- Quality Assurance for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Medical Services (QAAMS)
- Quality Use of Pathology Program (QUPP)
Publications
- Terms of Reference for the Review of Funding of Pathology Services
- Discussion Papers for the Review of Funding of Pathology
- Report from the National Workshop on Safety and Quality in Pathology Canberra 28 November 2007
- Pathology Workforce
- Report on a Review of the Level of Public Health Risk and Adequacy of Controls over Non-Medicare Pathology Services
