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Point of Care Testing, An Issue of the Clinics in Laboratory Medicine
- 1st Edition, Volume 43-2 - May 14, 2023
- Editor: Linoj Samuel
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 8 2 9 4 - 5
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 8 2 9 5 - 2
In this issue of Clinics in Laboratory Medicine, guest editor Dr. Linoj Samuel brings his considerable expertise to the topic of Point of Care Testing. Top experts discuss the… Read more
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Request a sales quoteIn this issue of Clinics in Laboratory Medicine, guest editor Dr. Linoj Samuel brings his considerable expertise to the topic of Point of Care Testing. Top experts discuss the challenges, techniques, and data collection for point of care and at-home testing options for COVID-19, fungal pathogens, and STDs in various demographics, among other key topics.
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Contains 10 practice-oriented topics including point of care testing during the COVID-19 pandemic: challenges and pitfalls; will antigen testing remain relevant in point of care testing; the role of point of care testing in specific populations; lab at home: is at-home testing the new normal; point of care testing for sexually transmitted diseases; and more.
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Provides in-depth clinical reviews on point of care testing, offering actionable insights for clinical practice.
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Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.
Laboratory medicine
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Forthcoming Issues
- Preface
- Regulatory Approach to Point-of-Care/At-Home Testing in the United States
- Key points
- Introduction
- History
- COVID point-of-care and home testing
- The future of point-of-care, near patient testing, and at-home testing
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Practical Challenges of Point-of-Care Testing
- Key points
- Introduction
- Clinical application
- Point-of-care testing versus central laboratory tests
- Economics of point-of-care testing adoption
- Point-of-care testing location
- Staffing
- Quality
- Preanalytical and analytical factors
- Postanalytical factors (reporting of point-of-care testing results)
- Implementing a quality management system
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Will Antigen Testing Remain Relevant in the Point-of-Care Testing Environment?
- Key points
- Introduction and background
- Specific assay considerations
- Personal perspectives and future prospects
- Clinics care points
- Disclosures
- The Role of Point-of-Care Testing in Specific Populations
- Key points
- Introduction
- Point-of-care testing for specific populations: the example of people living with human immunodeficiency virus
- Usage of point-of-care testing in rural and resource-limited settings
- Enduring gaps in point-of-care test access
- Summary
- Disclosure
- Clinics care points
- Point-of-Care Testing for Sexually Transmitted Infections
- Key points
- Introduction
- Trichomonas vaginalis
- Gonorrhea and chlamydia
- Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
- Syphilis
- Human papilloma virus
- Herpes simplex virus
- Bacterial vaginosis
- Sexually transmitted infection at-home, self-testing
- The future of sexually transmitted infection point-of-care testing
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Point-of-Care Testing for the Diagnosis of Fungal Infections: Current Testing Applications and Potential for the Future
- Key points
- Introduction
- Discussion
- What might the future hold for fungal point-of-care testing?
- Summary
- Disclosure
- Hot Topics in Cancer Testing and New Developments
- Metaplastic Breast Carcinoma Revisited; Subtypes Determine Outcomes: Comprehensive Pathologic, Clinical, and Molecular Review
- Key points
- Overview
- Pathology
- Molecular alterations and target therapy
- Tumor microenvironment and immunotherapy
- Treatment
- Prognosis
- Clinics care points
- Update on Ovarian Sex Cord–Stromal Tumors
- Key points
- Introduction
- Pure stromal tumors
- Pure sex cord tumors
- Mixed sex cord–stromal tumors
- Clinics care points
- Kidney Tumors: New and Emerging Kidney Tumor Entities
- Key points
- Eosinophilic solid and cystic renal cell carcinoma
- Renal cell carcinoma with fibromyomatous stroma
- Anaplastic lymphoma kinase-rearranged renal cell carcinoma
- Eosinophilic vacuolated tumor
- Low-grade oncocytic tumor
- Thyroid-like follicular renal cell carcinoma
- Biphasic hyalinizing psammomatous renal cell carcinoma
- Summary
- Disclosure
- Dedication
- A New Landscape of Testing and Therapeutics in Metastatic Breast Cancer
- Key points
- Overview
- Hormone receptor and human epidermal growth factor receptor-2 testing
- Programmed death-ligand 1 testing for immunotherapy
- Mismatch repair protein deficiency, microsatellite instability, and tumor mutation burden testing
- Single-gene alteration testing for targeted therapy
- Future directions
- Summary
- No. of pages: 240
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 43-2
- Published: May 14, 2023
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Hardback ISBN: 9780443182945
- eBook ISBN: 9780443182952
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Linoj Samuel
Affiliations and expertise
Division Head, Clinical Microbiology,Henry Ford Health System