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. 2020 Jul 20:7:2374289520935587.
doi: 10.1177/2374289520935587. eCollection 2020 Jan-Dec.

Educational Case: Point-of-Care Testing

Isaac E McCool  1 , Jeannie M Muir  1 , Barbara E C Knollmann-Ritschel  2
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Educational Case: Point-of-Care Testing

Isaac E McCool et al. Acad Pathol. .

Abstract

The following fictional case is intended as a learning tool within the Pathology Competencies for Medical Education (PCME), a set of national standards for teaching pathology. These are divided into three basic competencies: Disease Mechanisms and Processes, Organ System Pathology, and Diagnostic Medicine and Therapeutic Pathology. For additional information, and a full list of learning objectives for all three competencies, see http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2374289517715040. 1.

Keywords: diagnostic medicine; general principles; pathology competencies; point of care testing; postanalytical errors; preanalytical errors; sensitivity; specificity.

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Conflict of interest statement

Declaration of Conflicting Interests: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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