Challenges in detection of adolescent anaemia: validation of point-of-care device (Mission & #174; plus) for haemoglobin measurement among tribal residential school children of selected districts of Odisha, India

Conclusions: Very good reliability/absolute agreement for hemoglobin measurements existed between the POC device and the gold standard method making it suitable as a screening device.

Source: Indian Journal of Community Medicine - December 8, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Jyotiranjan Sahoo Venkatarao Epari Sandeep Kumar Panigrahi Deepa Prasad Rajesh Kumar Bhola Sambedana Mohanty Braja Kishore Behera Source Type: research