Las Vegas—Point-of-care international normalized ratio (POC INR) tests have grown popular in anticoagulation clinics, ERs and patients’ homes. But some caution is needed with these devices, based on reports of divergent results presented at the ASHP 2019 Midyear Clinical Meeting.
“There are limitations to those devices that are not well known,” said Kimberly Arline, RPh, a pharmacist with the Parkview Medical Center anticoagulation service in Pueblo,