The point-of-care Bilistick method has very short turn-around-time and high accuracy at lower cutoff levels to predict laboratory-measured TSB

Boo NY 1 , Chang YF 2 , Leong YX 3 , Tok ZY 3 , Hooi LC 3 , Chee SC 4 Show all authors , Latif ZA 5

Affiliations 

  • 1 Department of Population Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University Tunku Abdul Rahman, Selangor, Malaysia. [email protected]
  • 2 Department of Mathematical and Actuarial Sciences, Faculty of Engineering and Science, University Tunku Abdul Rahman, Selangor, Malaysia
  • 3 Department of Population Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University Tunku Abdul Rahman, Selangor, Malaysia
  • 4 Department of Paediatrics, Hospital Selayang, Selangor, Malaysia
  • 5 Department of Paediatrics, Hospital Ampang, Selangor, Malaysia
Pediatr Res, 2019 08;86(2):216-220.
PMID: 30696987 DOI: 10.1038/s41390-019-0304-0

Abstract

BACKGROUND: This study aimed to determine the accuracy of a point-of-care Bilistick method for measuring total serum bilirubin (TSB) and its turn-around-time (TAT) against hospital laboratory methods.

METHODS: This prospective study was carried out on 561 term-gestation jaundiced neonates in two Malaysian hospitals. Venous blood sample was collected from each neonate for contemporary measurement of TSB by hospital laboratories and Bilistick. TAT was the time interval between specimen collection and TSB result reported by each method.

RESULTS: The mean laboratory-measured TSB was 194.85 (±2.844) µmol/L and Bilistick TSB was 169.37 (±2.706) µmol/L. Pearson's correlation coefficient was: r = 0.901 (p 

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