What are the advantages of Self-Monitoring of the INR for the patient?
The advantages of Self-Monitoring at a glance: • Helps the patient to contribute to the treatment – leading to better compliance • More frequent testing means longer time in the therapeutic range (thus fewer complications) • Greater quality of life/independence at work, on holiday, at home • Better and safer fine-tuning of the treatment compared to usual testing • No venous punctures (only a drop of blood from the fingertip) top
