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  • Title: Evaluation of the Meritas® BNP Test for Point-of-Care Testing.
    Author: Olausson J, Peterson C, Bergström M, Larsson A.
    Journal: Clin Lab; 2015; 61(7):727-30. PubMed ID: 26299071.
    Abstract:
    BACKGROUND: BNP and NT-proBNP are widely used as rule-out tests for heart failure (HF) and they are frequently requested by primary care doctors. A point-of-care (POC) test would reduce the time to diagnosis for patients with suspected HF. The aim of the study was to evaluate a POC BNP test. METHODS: Plasma BNP results obtained with the Meritas® POC instrument (n = 82) were compared with the corresponding plasma BNP results analyzed on an Advia Centaur analyzer (Siemens Healthcare, Erlangen, Germany). RESULTS: The two methods showed concordant results with a Passing-Bablok correlation between the two methods: BNP(Meritas) = 1.00 x BNP(Siemens) + 1.09; r = 0.9773. CONCLUSIONS: The study show that the Meritas® BNP assay could be used in primary care permitting rapid BNP testing to rule out heart failure.
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