As the need for increased and widespread COVID-19 diagnostic testing has arisen, also become decentralized: where was originally primarily conducted in clinic or laboratory settings, now frequently occurs at community sites, pharmacies, workplaces, schools, home. With this paradigm shift comes new usability barriers as companies rapidly adapt laboratory- point-of-care-based tests other use case...

Laboratory diagnosis of APS relies on the demonstration of a positive test for aPL. In clinical practice, the gold standard tests are those that detect beta2GPI-dependent aCL or LA. The question on the use of anti-beta2GPI asa routine diagnostic test remains unanswered, and testing for these antibodies should be only performed in very selected cases and not as an alternative to aCL or LA testin...

Like any other medical technology or intervention, diagnostic tests should be thoroughly evaluated before their introduction into daily practice. Increasingly, decision makers, physicians, and other users of diagnostic tests request more than simple measures of a test's analytical or technical performance and diagnostic accuracy; they would also like to see testing lead to health benefits. In t...

OBJECTIVE Subacromial impingement syndrome (SIS) is a frequent cause of shoulder pain. The aim of this study was to investigate the diagnostic values of clinical diagnostic tests, in patients with SIS. METHODS 72 female, 48 male patients with shoulder pain were included in the study. Five had bilateral shoulder pain, so 125 painful shoulders were evaluated. Details were recorded about the pat...