Table 6. Specific requests for what ideal POC tests should be able to measure, state or diagnose.

	Residents and Interns	Lab Workers	Junior Nurses	Senior Nurses	HC III Clinical Officers	HC IV Medical Officers	Paediatricians
Distinguish between bacterial/non bacterial infection	⦁	⦁		⦁		⦁	⦁
Microbiology of most common infections	⦁	⦁				⦁	⦁
Respiratory tract infections		⦁				⦁	⦁
Etiology of fever		⦁
CNS infections		⦁		⦁
Etiology of diarrhea	⦁	⦁				⦁
Brucellosis		⦁	⦁		⦁
Ebola				⦁	⦁	⦁
Enteric fever					⦁
Fungal infections		⦁					⦁
Hepatitis B			⦁		⦁
HIV	⦁		⦁	⦁
Human Papilloma Virus	⦁
Malaria	⦁	⦁	⦁	⦁		⦁
Marburg virus				⦁	⦁	⦁
Syphilis		⦁		⦁
Tuberculosis		⦁	⦁		⦁	⦁
Throat infection							⦁
Toxoplasmosis		⦁
Typhoid		⦁	⦁
Severity of infection		⦁	⦁			⦁
Drug resistance		⦁
Basic organ functions	⦁						⦁
Blood gas	⦁						⦁
Blood group				⦁
Blood slide							⦁
Blood glucose	⦁			⦁			⦁
C-reactive Protein	⦁
Electrolytes							⦁
“Everything”							⦁
Full blood count							⦁
Haemoglobin	⦁	⦁		⦁
Immunodeficiency							⦁
Procalcitonin	⦁
Sickle cell anemia	⦁			⦁

At least one mention in groups marked by ⦁