Some home health care tests, such as COVID tests, have had a major and beneficial impact on care. But there is not always a high level of regulation among home-testing service.
Some of the home health care tests have had a major and beneficial impact on care. One easy example are at-home COVID tests, which allow people to get an answer of whether they have COVID very quickly. This potentially allows them to get emergency treatment and avoid infecting others.
Given the difficulties that many people have getting care, I can understand why people are interested in doing testing themselves. Unfortunately, there are some real problems with home testing: With a battery of individual tests like the CBC, this means that about 65% of the time, a healthy person will have at least one “abnormal” result, which is usually just out of the “normal” range.Even with an excellent-quality laboratory running a test with a very good ability to detect diseases, most abnormal tests will be false positives, causing a person to have anxiety and incur expenses from further testing. It takes experience to know when to worry about abnormal test results.
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