After Alexanderâs death his Empire was divided among his four generals (known in Latin as the Diadochi, the name by which they are still referenced, from the Greek, Diadokhoi, meaning successors): Lysimachus, Cassander, Ptolemy and Seleucus.
It is generally recognized that POCT is more expensive on a unit cost basis than central laboratory testing. In the case of the Biosite D-dimer, the unit cost, including reagents, labor, quality control, and calibration, is approximately $23.92 per test. The VIDAS D-dimer cost is approximately $20.92 per test, including labor, supplies, and specimen processing.
Another 157 patients (23.3%) had a D-dimer level lower than their age-adjusted cutoff. Therefore, the proportion of patients older than 75 years with a nonhigh or unlikely clinical probability and a negative D-dimer result using the age-adjusted cutoff was 200 of 673 patients (29.7% [95% CI, 26.4%-33.3%]).