INR Testing at Home | 合法醫療器材資訊網

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Patients on warfarin need to get their INR levels measured regularly, which often involves visiting a local anticoagulation clinic, lab, or doctor’s office to get a blood test. However, there’s another option for INR testing: in-home testing, also known as self-testing or point-of-care testing.

“I think a lot of patients don’t think of home testing as an option because they don’t really know about it,” explained Dr. Peter Collins, an Advanced Clinical Practice Pharmacist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH). Dr. Collins works in the anticoagulation clinic at BWH and helps patients on warfarin get set up with in-home INR testing.

“Doctors’ offices, and even sometim...