Despite the recent Veteran Affairs (VA) Medical Center randomized clinical trial reporting that INR self-testing did not reduce major bleeding complication rates or onset of new strokes, there are ...

Patients on long-term anticoagulation therapy who test their own blood-clotting time from home and continue to be managed by their GP are significantly less likely to experience a thromboembolic ...

For patients in the self-testing group who were assigned to test their INR once a week, we measured adherence to the test-frequency assignment by looking at the number of days between consecutive ...

At-home patient self-monitoring of warfarin therapy yielded similar results to monitoring performed in a clinic setting and randomized trials, particularly among those who self-tested on a weekly ...

Digital health specialist Inhealthcare is bringing to market the first self-testing mobile app for warfarin users that connects directly to doctors. The Harrogate, North Yorkshire-based company ...

(HealthDay)—Most patients have high confidence in self-testing their international normalized ratio (INR), according to a study published online Feb. 23 in the Journal of Clinical Nursing.

A prothrombin time test tells you how long it takes your blood to clot. Learn what it looks for, when you might need one, and what the results mean.

A voluntary recall of certain test strips made by Roche Diagnostics for use with its CoaguChek warfarin anticoagulation meters is now categorized as Class I, the US Food and Drug Administration ...

A new recall has been issued CoaguChek XS PT test strips, used to monitor international normalized ratio (INR) in patients taking warfarin, due to inaccurately high readings. Roche Diagnostics ...