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Point of Care Patient Testing (POCT)
Assignment – Introduction of a new POCT device
Scenario:
In order to improve patient access and throughput, a management review of the
requirements for a busy emergency department at a regional hospital has established
the need to provide POCT for troponin and creatinine. You have been asked by
your manager to provide recommendations for the selection of appropriate POCT
devices for these tests.
Your Assignment:
Provide justification for your choice of devices. To do this you will need to develop a
selection criteria to compare the available devices. Then you will need to summarise
your recommendations and consider any on-going operational procedures required in
order to provide quality results for patient testing.
Include in your answer recommendations with regard to:
� Critical evaluation of testing devices which provide results appropriate to
clinical requirements (i.e. is the chosen device fit for purpose ?)
� Pre-analytical considerations
o Instructions for patient preparation and sample collection
o Patient safety and risk management
o Operator handling & training required
� Analytical considerations
o Frequency and type of quality control (QC)
o External quality assessment (EQA) procedures
o Device maintenance requirements
� Post-analytical
o Instructions for the recording / reporting of results
� Other general considerations for testing
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Some background notes about this assignment:
For the successful completion of this exercise, you will need to think about all the
aspects of testing for these analytes. This will include all of the quality specifications
as well as the practical considerations such as user friendliness, cost, shelf-life of
reagents, portability and so forth. (Note: This is what you would need to do in a work
environment if you were asked to select a new instrument � be it lab or POCT).
To do this you would first collate the data and include it in a spreadsheet for
comparison. Then once your comparison and decision is made, you would write a
brief report for your manager. Such a report is called an executive summary. These
summaries are only one page in length � this is because your manager is busy and
just wants your conclusions with brief justifications.
Structure:
Your details: Your executive summary and Excel sheet must have your name, student
number, & date as a footer to the document.
Justification = Excel spread sheet: Develop two spreadsheets (one for each analyte)
to be presented in the one workbook (plus embedded as tables in the word
document). Each of these spreadsheets should critically compare devices against
your selection criteria.
Recommendations = Written (executive) summary: Provide a written summary
justifying your recommendations. As this is an executive summary, your word
document should be no more than two page of writing with a word limit of 500 for the
written text.
Referencing: Vancouver style. Place your relevant references at the bottom of your
Excel sheet and just add the main references based on your decision to the word
document.
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Submission
For this assignment, you need to do the following:
1) Embed you two worksheets as pages in the executive summary word file and
upload this entire word document to the Turnitin link.
2) Upload your original Excel file to the submission link � I will onely look at this file for
your embedded calculations etc.
3) Ensure your name is part of the submission file name.
Due Date
5pm last working day of week 10 of the semester.
Marks
20% of course (10% written summary and 10% for the spreadsheets). Note your
executive summary will be marked in relation to your Excel sheet.
Note 1: No marks will be awarded for an executive summary in the absence of an
Excel sheet providing the supporting evidence for the justification.
Note 2: The uploaded excel file is not specifically marked and is only sourced if