POCT Committee Terms of Reference TOR

22 pages. Establishes the committee that reviews every point of care testing request, with defined authority, role based membership, quorum rules and thirteen evaluation criteria. Makes method comparison against the laboratory a condition of release rather than a task for later, and reviews each device against the volume forecast that justified its purchase. Includes submission requirements, five review outcomes, a utilization variance table, retirement process, eleven indicators and nine common failure modes