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Qualitative Study Of Primary Care Clinicians' Views On Point-Of-Care Testing For C-Reactive Protein For Acute Respiratory Tract Infections In Family Medicine., Victoria Hardy, Matthew Thompson, Gina A Keppel, William Alto, M Ashworth Dirac, Jon Neher, Christopher Sanford, Jaime Hornecker, Allison Cole
Qualitative Study Of Primary Care Clinicians' Views On Point-Of-Care Testing For C-Reactive Protein For Acute Respiratory Tract Infections In Family Medicine., Victoria Hardy, Matthew Thompson, Gina A Keppel, William Alto, M Ashworth Dirac, Jon Neher, Christopher Sanford, Jaime Hornecker, Allison Cole
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OBJECTIVE: To explore clinicians views of the barriers and facilitators to use of C-reactive protein (CRP) point-of-care tests (POCT) in US family medicine clinics for the management of acute respiratory tract infections (ARTIs) in adults.
SETTING: Five family medicine clinics across two US states.
PARTICIPANTS: 30 clinicians including 18 physicians, 9 physician residents, 2 physician assistants and 1 nurse practitioner, took part in the study.
DESIGN: A qualitative study using a grounded theory approach to thematically analyse focus group interviews.
RESULTS: These clinicians had limited access to diagnostic tests for patients with ARTI, and very little knowledge of CRP POCT. …