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A pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial to evaluate the safety, clinical effectiveness, cost effectiveness and satisfaction with point of care testing in a general practice setting – rationale, design and baseline characteristics

Caroline Laurence1*, Angela Gialamas1, Lisa Yelland2, Tanya Bubner1, Philip Ryan2, Kristyn Willson2, Briony Glastonbury3, Janice Gill4, Mark Shephard5, Justin Beilby6 and for members of the PoCT Trial Management Committee

Author Affiliations

1 Discipline of General Practice, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

2 Discipline of Public Health, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

3 Save Sight Institute, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

4 RCPA Quality Assurance Programs Pty Ltd, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

5 Community Point-of-Care Services, Flinders University Rural Clinical School, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

6 Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

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Trials 2009, 10:7 doi:10.1186/1745-6215-10-7


The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at: http://www.trialsjournal.com/content/10/1/7


Received:16 January 2009
Accepted:28 January 2009
Published:28 January 2009

© 2009 Laurence et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Correction

Following the publication of our article [1] we noticed an error within Additional file 2: Comparison of patient baseline characteristics by condition. The column headings 'Control' and 'Intervention' are incorrectly positioned in the table and should be switched.

The table should therefore appear as shown in Table 1 in this correction.

Table 1. Comparison of patient baseline characteristics by condition

References

  1. Laurence C, Gialamas A, Yelland L, Bubner T, Ryan P, Willson K, Glastonbury B, Gill J, Shepard M, Beilby J, for members of the PoCT Trial Management Committee: A pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial to evaluate the safety, clinical effectiveness, cost effectiveness and satisfaction with point of care testing in a general practice setting – rationale, design and baseline characteristics.

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