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Table 3 Ranking of relevant POCT characteristics and reasons for performing POCTs

From: Point-of-care laboratory testing in primary care: utilization, limitations and perspectives of general practitioners in Germany

  1. aGPs were asked to provide a ranking of predefined (i) POCT properties and (ii) reasons for performing POCTs by sorting from most important (1) to least important ((i) 6, (ii) 5). In order to calculate a summarised score for each POCT property, the scores from all questionnaires were added up. An analogue calculation was conducted for the ranking of reasons for performing POCTs