Challenges in detection of adolescent anaemia: validation of point-of-care device (Mission® plus) for haemoglobin measurement among tribal residential school children of selected districts of Odisha, India

• Autori principali: Jyotiranjan Sahoo (Autore), Venkatarao Epari (Autore), Sandeep Kumar Panigrahi (Autore), Deepa Prasad (Autore), Rajesh Kumar Bhola (Autore), Sambedana Mohanty (Autore), Braja Kishore Behera (Autore)
• Natura: Libro
• Pubblicazione: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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Background: Screening for anemia among tribal school children has been a challenge. Objectives: To validate a point-of-care (POC) device (mission® plus hemoglobinometer) to the gold standard method, spectrophotometry. Study Design: Cross-sectional study. Participants: The representative sample of 95...