Point of Care Testing of Fecal Calprotectin as a Substitute for Routine Laboratory Analysis

BÜHLMANN fCAL® turbo and IBDoc®:

Hejla, J, Theedeb, K, et al.  Point of care testing of fecal calprotectin as a substitute for routine laboratory analysis.  Practical Laboratory Medicine; 10 (2018) 10-14. PMID: 29234707 DOI: 10.1016/j.plabm.2017.11.002

Highlights from this Publication

“This study suggests that IBDoc® is a suitable alternative for the assessment of disease activity in IBD patients. Point of care testing would reduce the turnaround time significantly and potentially improve the quality of treatment by enabling rapid responses to relapses.”