Point of Care Tests
Point-of-care tests can happen in a wide variety of locations: in your home, at a health care practitioner’s office, in the emergency department, in an infectious disease containment unit, in ambulances, at an accident scene, in the military, in the radiology department, on a cruise ship, or even on the space shuttle. And a wide variety of people can perform point-of-care tests, including laboratory professionals, emergency first responders, radiologists, doctors, nurses, physician assistants, or other health care practitioners. They may even be done by yourself, sometimes called “self-tests” or “home tests.”
