Assignment Option 1: Adult Assessment Tools or Diagnostic Tests:
Include the following:

  • A description of how the assessment tool or diagnostic test you were assigned is used in healthcare.
    • What is its purpose?
    • How is it conducted?
    • What information does it gather?
  • Based on your research, evaluate the test or the tool’s validity and reliability, and explain any issues with sensitivity, reliability, and predictive values. Include references in appropriate APA formatting.

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Adult Assessment Tools or Diagnostic Tests

Introduction 

When patients are seeking healthcare services, healthcare providers will have the role of first determining the health condition of the patient. This will entail the process of selecting a diagnostic test and a tool for assessment. The process of choosing an assessment tool will be carried out with the consideration of the validity and the reliability of the results that are intended to be got. In this discussion, I choose to make use of the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test. Ilic et al. (2018) depict that PSA is useful for the testing of the identification of the presence of cancer cells. With the tool, there could be early detection of cancer and helps in the full assessment of the body of a patient.

 Description of how the assessment tool or diagnostic test assigned is used in healthcare

The process of screening of elevated levels of prostate-specific antigens in the blood is useful for the detection of issues of prostate cancer at an early stage in the natural history. However, there is little success in the determination of the extent that the screening can help in the reduction of the mortality rates from the issues of prostate cancer. Unlike the other tests such as mammography that has been used in the screening and reduction of the death rates, there is little knowledge on the use of the PSA.

The use of the test is mainly based on the process of testing for the level of PSA in the blood of a patient. The prostate is a gland that is found in the reproductive system located below the bladder and is useful for the production of fluids that are part of the semen. PSA is found in the prostate and Tikkinen et al. (2018) depict that healthy men are expected to have a low level of PSA in the blood….

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