2004 Academics Point-of-Care Testing 
Taming the SRU
AUGUST 30, 2023
A 2011 meta-analysis in the journal of Academic Emergency Medicine found ESR, CRP, and PCT were not acutely useful in the diagnosis of septic arthritis due to wildly varying sensitivities and specificities between studies. Diagnostic accuracy of point-of-care tests in acute community-acquired lower respiratory tract infections.
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However, results may take some time and, as such, rapid point-of-care tests are increasingly used. 2004 Sep 25;364(9440):1141–8. A throat culture is the gold standard for confirming a bacterial infection. Beware of false positives from colonisation of the throat with streptococcus. The Lancet. cited 2023 Jan 3].
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