Application and comparison of point-of-care devices for field evaluation of underlying health status of Guatemalan sugarcane workers.

• Main Authors: Lyndsay Krisher (Author), Diana Jaramillo (Author), Amy Dye-Robinson (Author), Miranda Dally (Author), Jaime Butler-Dawson (Author), Stephen Brindley (Author), Daniel Pilloni (Author), Alex Cruz (Author), Karely Villarreal Hernandez (Author), Joshua Schaeffer (Author), John L Adgate (Author), Lee S Newman (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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With chronic disease prevalence on the rise globally, surveillance and monitoring are critical to improving health outcomes. Point-of-care (POC) testing can facilitate epidemiological research and enhance surveillance systems in limited resource settings, but previous research has identified bias be...