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Clinical Intelligence: Point of Care Testing Textbook
You have been looking for that reference book that teaches you how to carry out a broad range of fast and accurate laboratory tests anywhere, anytime or right there in your practice. NOW YOU HAVE IT!
CLINICAL INTELLIGENCE IS THE FIRST & BEST SELLING POINT OF CARE TESTING REFERENCE BOOK IN AFRICA.
Clinical Intelligence is a trusted reference guide for health workers (nurses, doctors, pharmacists, community health workers, etc.) who offer near patient testing as part of the essential healthcare services they provide in the community. It’s also good for teaching students and training clinical/support staff.
HEALTH SYSTEM PROBLEMS ADDRESSED
Authored by a leading point of care testing expert, Akindele Opeyemi, Clinical Intelligence is healthcare industry’s first, most widely used, authoritative reference book on how healthcare providers can conduct fast and accurate laboratory tests anywhere, anytime.
Clinical Intelligence is all about point of care testing (POCT) from the perspective of community practice and implementation in resource-constrained settings. It was written from the author’s immersive experience in underserved communities in South West Nigeria where he observed first-hand the effects of dearth of point of care testing skills and diagnostic errors among healthcare providers.
Clinical Intelligence was written since 2017, well ahead of the publication of World Health Organisation’s Essential Diagnostics List (first released in 2018), and the Nigerian EDL (first published in 2022).
Considering the problem of lack of access to essential diagnostics among 80% of developing countries and the lack of comprehensive POCT skills among health workers, Clinical Intelligence provides a practical application of both the WHO Essential Diagnostics List and the Nigerian Essential Diagnostics List.
Before Clinical Intelligence, primary care professionals who attend to over 80% of healthcare needs in Nigeria and the rest of Africa often miss opportunities to provide fast and accurate diagnose because they did not have a complete, authoritative reference book that gives them the skills and necessary information.
Diagnostic accuracy is 36.4% in Nigeria, about the worst in Africa. What this means is that less than 4 out of 10 persons are accurately diagnosed. Inaccurate diagnosis leads to low life expectancy (54 years), loss of productivity, injuries, high cost of treatments and loss of confidence of both patients and even the government in the healthcare system.
Now with Clinical Intelligence, millions of healthcare professionals that provide essential healthcare services in underserved communities can diagnose more accurately and detect most of the diseases that contribute to 80% of deaths early.
Community health workers, primary care physicians, community pharmacists, nurses, medical laboratory professionals and everyone that supports provision of healthcare in remote villages now have a rich, easy-to-understand resource to leverage.
Primary Healthcare Performance Initiative funded by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
WHAT YOU WILL FIND IN CLINICAL INTELLIGENCE
Clinical Intelligence provides the following:
1. Robust discussions of theoretical framework that gives a contextual understanding of point of care testing. Ethical considerations in delivering POCT.
2. Step by step description of how to carry out a broad range of POCTs and interpret the results in order to make informed clinical decisions in primary care settings like pharmacy, clinics, primary health centres, physician consulting room, and medical laboratory.
3. Justification for patient-facing healthcare professionals to integrate POCT with their practice.
4. An understanding of the various stages at which errors can occur in carrying out POCTs.
5. Useful public health statistics that shed light on the prevalence of certain diseases especially in the African region
6. Detailed explanations of the principles guiding individual tests and the basis for the results obtained.
7. Useful post-test information to help with clinical decisions after completion of tests.
8. A list of high risk group of people to recruit for certain tests.
9. Useful tables to guide interpretation of results
10. A comprehensive explanation of models of POCT implementation, features etc.
HOW TO GET A COPY
Account number: 7853511400
Bank: Wema Bank
Account name: Global Masters Institute
Amount: NGN10,000
Send your proof of payment and address to globalmastersinstitute@gmail.com for waybill. Price not inclusive of delivery.
REACH OUT TO THE AUTHOR
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Email: opeyemiezekielakindele@gmail.com
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