Health care workers' perceptions of point-of-care testing in a low-income country-A qualitative study in Southwestern Uganda.
BACKGROUND:Point-of-care (POC) tests have become increasingly available and more widely used in recent years. They have been of particular importance to low-income settings, enabling them with clinical capacities that had previously been limited. POC testing programs hold a great potential for signi...
Main Authors: | Reza Rasti, Deborah Nanjebe, Jonas Karlström, Charles Muchunguzi, Juliet Mwanga-Amumpaire, Jesper Gantelius, Andreas Mårtensson, Lourdes Rivas, Francesc Galban, Philippa Reuterswärd, Helene Andersson Svahn, Helle M Alvesson, Yap Boum, Tobias Alfvén |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2017-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5547696?pdf=render |
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