What if you could administer a thyroid stimulating hormone test to patients in your office and get results in just 10 minutes? What if you could offer this to patients as a routine activity similar to HDL/LDL testing?
You could help more patients daily and make timely treatment decisions by knowing who's not hypothyroid. You could reduce your patient's average testing cost and increase your practice's earnings at the same time.
If you have CLIA waiver status or have a moderately complex lab, then consider giving your patients a rapid TSH test. Our ThyroChek® TSH test kits will detect elevated TSH in minutes using one drop of blood from a finger stick or venous draw.
Elevated TSH or TSH greater than 5mIU/L is the first clinical indicator of hypothyroidism, the most common disease of the thyroid.
How many patients are in your waiting room with the symptoms of hypothyroidism such as weight gain, fatigue, or depression?
Given the common nature of hypothyroid symptoms, a blood test for elevated TSH is the only way you will know for certain. Test with ThyroChek® first and you will find 85 to 90% of your patients will have TSH less than 5mIU/L. They won't need to go to the lab for further testing today. If you find that hard to believe, review the charts of your 20 latest patients who were sent to the lab.
With ThyroChek, you don't need to know the number because you are not going to treat for hypothyroidism. You may begin treatment for them right away, knowing it is not their thyroid. ThyroChek® is 99.9% accurate when indicating TSH +/-10% 5mIU/L.
ThyroChek® tests for elevated TSH with high sensitivity and specificity in using whole blood from a fingerstick of venipuncture with 99.9% accuracy when compared to sTSH on lab instrument analyzers.
If you are a qualifying medical professional, we invite you to participate in a free trial kit of ThyroChek® and view our special report "How To Improve Patient Care and Increase Earnings with TSH Point-Of-Care Testing"
Yes - I’m interested in evaluating how rapid TSH“Based on the less-than-1% discordance rate between sTSH and FT4 results, an sTSH level alone is adequate to screen outpatients for thyroid dysfunction. Ordering the sTSH alone,initially, followed by FT4 in only those cases of abnormal sTSH, will significantly decrease unnecessary testing and expense.”
Dr. Anthony J. Viera
American Academy of Family Physicians. Award winner for his study while a resident at the Family Practice Unit at the Jacksonville Naval Hospital, 2002