Clinical Study

Clinical Outcomes of Telemonitoring for Patients on Warfarin after Discharge from Hospital

Table 2

Therapeutic outcome measures.

OutcomesTelephone Usual care p-value

INR values in range45.6% (36/79)24.1% (19/79)0.005
TTR49.8+34.328.0+27.50.017
Out of range INR values
 Subtherapeutic43.0% (34/79)51.8% (41/79)0.265
 Supratherapeutic11.4% (9/79)24.1 % (19/79)0.037
Patients with >1 out of range INR value84.0% (21/25)100.0% (25/25)0.037

Percentage of INR values out of all INR measures. Mean + standard deviation. INR: international normalized ratio. TTR: time in therapeutic range.