21st Century Point-of-Care, Near-Patient and Critical Care Testing—2nd Edition
A special issue of Diagnostics (ISSN 2075-4418). This special issue belongs to the section "Point-of-Care Diagnostics and Devices".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 11
Special Issue Editor
Interests: point-of-care testing; critical limits/values; global warming; pre-hospital diagnostics; crisis response
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Point-of-care testing is medical testing at or near the site of patient care. COVID-19 brought about the worldwide acceptance of point-of-care strategies to manage a major infectious threat. This Special Issue builds on that progress. We welcome papers focused on point-of-care themes addressing (a) rapid pathogen detection; (b) discovery, mitigation, and management of outbreaks; (c) antimicrobial resistance; (d) home and self-testing; (e) mobile identification of community contagion; (f) rapid diagnostics for disasters, emergencies, and public health crises; (g) instrument robustness in harsh environments; (h) multiplex pathogen detection for targeted therapeutics; (i) results in interpretation in different prevalence settings; (j) smartphone-enabled tests; (k) land, sea, and air ambulance prehospital technologies; (l) cost-effectiveness for limited resource users; and general point-of-care inventions and innovations for the diagnosis of infectious diseases with the goals of enhanced decision making, standards of care, and public health resilience at points of critical need.
Dr. Gerald J. Kost
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- point-of-care testing
- infectious diseases
- early detection
- emergency management
- disaster readiness
- prehospital diagnosis
- health promotion
- public health resilience
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