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Utilisation and consequences of CRP point-of-care-testing in primary care practices: a real-world multicentre observational study with 1740 patient cases in Germany

Robby Markwart, Lena-Sophie Lehmann, Markus Krause, Paul Jung, Liliana Rost, Susanne Doepfmer, Lisa Kuempel, Doreen Kuschick, Kahina J Toutaoui, Christoph Heintze, Jutta Bleidorn and Florian Wolf
BJGP Open 2025; 9 (1): BJGPO.2024.0120. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGPO.2024.0120
Robby Markwart
1 Institute of General Practice and Family Medicine, Jena University Hospital, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany
2 InfectoGnostics Research Campus Jena, Jena, Germany
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1 Institute of General Practice and Family Medicine, Jena University Hospital, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany
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Susanne Doepfmer
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Lisa Kuempel
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Kahina J Toutaoui
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vol. 9 no. 1 BJGPO.2024.0120
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https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGPO.2024.0120
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39159989

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  • Received May 21, 2024
  • Accepted June 27, 2024
  • Published online April 24, 2025.

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  1. Robby Markwart1,2,
  2. Lena-Sophie Lehmann1,
  3. Markus Krause1,
  4. Paul Jung1,
  5. Liliana Rost1,
  6. Susanne Doepfmer3,
  7. Lisa Kuempel3,
  8. Doreen Kuschick3,
  9. Kahina J Toutaoui3,
  10. Christoph Heintze3,
  11. Jutta Bleidorn1 and
  12. Florian Wolf1,*
  1. 1 Institute of General Practice and Family Medicine, Jena University Hospital, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany
  2. 2 InfectoGnostics Research Campus Jena, Jena, Germany
  3. 3 Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institute of General Practice, Berlin, Germany
  1. ↵ *For correspondence:
    Florian Wolf, florian.wolf{at}med.uni-jena.de
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Robby Markwart, Lena-Sophie Lehmann, Markus Krause, Paul Jung, Liliana Rost, Susanne Doepfmer, Lisa Kuempel, Doreen Kuschick, Kahina J Toutaoui, Christoph Heintze, Jutta Bleidorn, Florian Wolf
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