Published

• Kost GJ, Korte B, Beyette, Jr. FR, Gaydos C, Weigl B. The NIBIB Point-of-Care Technologies Research Network: Center Themes and Opportunities for Exploratory Projects. Point of Care: The Journal of Near-Patient Testing and Technology 2008;7(1):41.
  
• Kost GJ, Tran NK, Abad VJ, Louie RF. Evaluation of point-of-care glucose testing accuracy using locally-smoothed median absolute difference curves. Clinica Chimica Acta 2008;389:31-39.
  
• Louie RF, Tang Z, Albertson TE, Cohen S, Tran NK, Kost GJ. Multiplex PCR Detection Enhancement of Bacteremia and Fungemia. Critical Care Medicine 2008; 36(5): 1487-1492.
  
• Kost GJ, Tran NK, Abad VJ, Louie RF. Global standardization and improved technologies for point-of-care glucose testing. Clinica Chimica Acta 2008; Feb 15: [Epub ahead of print].
  

In Press

• Kost GJ, Minear M, Siegel P, Turner CJ, Louie R, Tran N, Gentile N. Knowledge  ⇒ education ⇒  mind connectivity: Using telemedicine to archive a global vision for point-of-care testing. Point of Care: The Journal of Near-Patient Testing and Technology. 2008; 7: in press.
  

Submitted

• Kost GJ, Tran NK, Louie RF, Gentile N, Abad VJ.  Assessing the practical performance of handheld glucose testing for critical care application. Diabetes Technology and Therapeutics. 2008.
  
• Louie RF, Sumner SL, Belcher S, Mathew R, Tran NK, Kost GJ.  Thermal stress and point-of-care testing performance: Suitability of glucose test strips and blood gas cartridges for disaster response. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness. 2008.
  
• Gentile NL, Louie RF, Sifontes J, Mecozzi D, Hale K, Kost GJ. Standardization, harmonization, and realization. Point of Care: The Journal of Near-Patient Testing and Technology. 2008;7.
  
• Kost GJ. Point-of -need, global outreach, and a universal companion. Point of Care: The Journal of Near-Patient Testing and Technology. 2008.
  
• Louie RF, Hindson B, Tran NK, Gentile NL, Kost GJ. The Grand Point of Care Challenge. Point of Care: The Journal of Near-Patient Testing and Technology. 2008;7.
  
• Tran NK, Wisner DH, Albertson TE, Cohen SH, Greenhalgh DG, Galante JM, Phan HH, Kost GJ. Quantitative point-of-care pathogen detection in septicemia. Point of Care: The Journal of Near-Patient Testing and Technology. 2008;7.
  

•  Kost GJ. Glucose Meter Accuracy and Implications for Patient Care: Locally-Smoothed (LS) Median Absolute Difference Curves and A New Standard. Diabetes Technology Society, Seventh Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, October 26, 2007.
• Tran NK, Abad VJ, Louie RF, Kost GJ.  Locally-smoothed median absolute difference curves for pattern recognition of the accuracy of bedside glucose testing: A new recommended standard.  Diabetes Technology Society, Seventh Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, October 26-27, 2007:A173
• Tran NK, Louie RF, Gentile NL, Kost GJ.  Photon-based point-of-care testing for critical, emergency, and disaster care: A vision of the future.  First International Congress on Biophotonics, Sacramento, CA, February 3-7, 2008, no. R12.
• Kost GJ, Hindson B. Rapid Multipathogen Detection for POCT and National Disaster Readiness. Presentation to the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering POC Research Network Steering Committee and NIH Community, Natcher Center, Bethesda, MD, March 7, 2008.
• Louie RF. Rapid Multipathogen Detection for POCT and National Disaster Readiness. Technical Information Workshop. Clinical Translational Science Center and Center for Biophotonics Science and Technology, Davis, CA, March 18, 2007, p. 18.
• Tran NK, Galante J, Wisner D, Battistella F, Louie RF, Greenhalgh D, Albertson TE, Cohen S, Kost GJ.  Evaluation of a new multiplex PCR-based device for rapid pathogen detection in post-surgical trauma and burn patients with suspected septicemia. Breakthrough Technologies for Clinical Diagnostics, 40th Annual Oakridge Conference, American Association for Clinical Chemistry, San Jose, CA, April 17-18, 2008, no. 87.
• Hale KN, Gentile NL, Louie RF, Kost GJ. Optimizing Glucose Monitoring for Effective Point-of-Care Testing. 19th Annual Undergraduate Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities Conference at UC Davis. Davis, CA, April 26, 2008, p.55.
• Sifontes JR, Mecozzi DM, Hale K, Sumner S, Gentile NL, Louie RF, Kost GJ. Effects of Environmental Temperature Stress on Point-of-Care Testing Devices for Disaster Medicine. 19th Annual Undergraduate Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities Conference at UC Davis. Davis, CA, April 26, 2008, p. 109.