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POCT and data management

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This chapter shows how important comprehensive electronic networks linking POCT devices in hospitals are to coordinate POCT activities centrally. It also details the fundamentals of data processing and data management for decentralized POCT measurements from the networking perspective.

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Luppa, P.B., Braun, C., Bietenbeck, A. (2018). POCT and data management. In: Luppa, P.B., Junker, R. (eds) Point-of-Care Testing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-54497-6_27

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