Las Vegas—Point-of-care international normalized ratio (POC INR) tests have grown popular in anticoagulation clinics, emergency rooms and patients’ homes. But some caution should be heeded with these devices, including the popular Coaguchek XS POC (Roche), according to data presented at the ASHP 2019 Midyear Clinical Meeting.
“There are limitations to those devices that are not well known,” said Kimberly Arline, RPh, MEd, a pharmacist with the Parkview Medical Center