Educational Case: Point-of-Care Testing

Isaac E McCool; Jeannie M Muir; Barbara E C Knollmann-Ritschel

doi:10.1177/2374289520935587

Educational Case: Point-of-Care Testing

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

Authors

Isaac E McCool¹, Jeannie M Muir¹, Barbara E C Knollmann-Ritschel²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pathology, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD, USA.
² Department of Pathology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, USA.

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.