Patient Self-Testing of Kidney Function at Home, a Prospective Clinical Feasibility Study in Kidney Transplant Recipients.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

People with long-term health conditions often attend clinics for kidney function tests. The Self-Testing Own Kidneys (STOK) study assessed feasibility of kidney transplant recipients using hand-held devices to self-test kidney function at home and investigated agreement between home self-test and standard clinic test results.

Methods

A prospective, observational, single-center, clinical feasibility study (TRN: ISRCTN68116915), with N = 15 stable kidney transplant recipients, investigated blood potassium and creatinine results agreement between index self-tests at home (patient self-testing of capillary blood, using Abbott i-STAT Alinity analyzers [i-STAT]) and reference tests in clinic (staff sampled venous blood, analyzed with laboratory Siemens Advia Ch

SUBMITTER: Murray JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10239793 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature