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Home Based Monitoring of Kidney Transplants Utilizing Capillary Microsamples
Sponsor: Oslo University Hospital
Summary
Renal transplant recipients are followed as out patients at the transplant center for about 8 weeks after surgery. Between 1-2 weeks after surgery, 50 standard immunological patients will be randomized (1:1) to either follow standard of care (SOC) or having every second poli clinical visit without entering the hospital HBM; Home Based Monitoring). They are to take a capillary finger-prick blood sample themselves, send it to the laboratory for analysis and then they will get a telecom follow-up that day from their transplant physician. Outcome is no difference with regards to being able to follow the randomized follow-up procedure.
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
50
Start Date
2020-04-28
Completion Date
2024-12-31
Last Updated
2024-04-04
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
Standard follow-up
Standard post-transplant follow-up
Home-based monitoring
Patients take capillary blood sample by finger-prick and send to lab for analyses. Telecom follow-up that day by treating physician
Locations (1)
Oslo Univeristy Hospital - Rikshospitralet
Oslo, Norway