Rapid Diagnostic Tests are diagnostic assays designed for use at the point-of-care (POC) to provide results conveniently and almost immediately.
Thus, they offer a useful alternative to microscopy.1
Indeed, barriers to pathology labs are mainly long turnaround time to get the results and high cost pushing the healthcare professionals to prefer clinical symptoms as the standard of diagnosis.2
What if doctors could eliminate guesswork and diagnose accurately their patients in only 10 minutes?
Rapid Diagnostic Tests have extensively been used worldwide for the past decade due to their reliability, convenience and cost effectiveness.3
What does this mean?
For DOCTORS:
- Saves time
- Enables faster diagnostic: same-day results
- Provides timely treatment interventions
- Better clinical outcomes
FOR PATIENTS:
- Saves money
- Receive the best treatment at the time of the consultation
- Limits movement to laboratory & additional exposure to COVID-19
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References:
- CDC, 2018, Rapid Diagnostic Tests: How They Work https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/malaria_worldwide/reduction/dx_rdt.html
- S Afr Med J 2018;108(12):1032-1035.
- WHO, In vitro diagnostics and laboratory technology https://www.who.int/diagnostics_laboratory/faq/simple_rapid_tests/en/