Opportunities and challenges of laboratory testing at alternative sites

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Alternate site testing can be cost effective, timely, and accurate. However, more data needs to be collected about clinical outcomes using this new technology. Alternate site testing refers to the trend of doctors using medical test kits in the presence of the patient, rather than taking samples and sending them to a lab that does nothing but perform medical tests. It is believed that more closely involving the doctor and patient in the test procedure could lead to more consistent test accuracy. Physicians, nurses, and health care staff personnel in central laboratories should cooperate in the endeavor. Blood glucose and coagulation testing programs have been managed well through alternative site testing.

Editorial, Usage, Evaluation, Medical tests, Diagnosis, Laboratory, Laboratory diagnosis

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Alzheimer and vascular dementias and driving: a prospective road and laboratory study

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Various psychological tests may be able to detect elderly people with mild dementia who are poor drivers. Researchers gave a driving test and several tests of mental status to 13 people with mild Alzheimer's disease, 12 with mild vascular dementia, 26 healthy people over 60 and 16 young healthy volunteers. Elderly people with mild dementia did worse on the driving test than young and old people without dementia. Low scores on visual tracking, mental status and short-term memory tests were most closely associated with low scores on the driving test in the elderly people with mild dementia.

Psychological aspects, Dementia, Alzheimer's disease, Aged automobile drivers, Elderly drivers, Cognition disorders in old age, Geriatric cognitive disorders

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