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This chapter discusses the costs of POCT analysis incurred mainly in the hospital setting while elucidating how important it is to account for cost items beyond those of the purely analytical process. Moreover, one subchapter presents the principles on which reimbursement of POCT services using the German healthcare system are based as an example.
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Gässler, N., Junker, R., Langer, C., Schäfer, B. (2018). Economic aspects of POCT. In: Luppa, P.B., Junker, R. (eds) Point-of-Care Testing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-54497-6_30
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