Patient-perspective and feasibility of home finger-prick testing to complement and facilitate large-scale research in rheumatology.
Yaëlle R BestenLaura BoekelMaurice SteenhuisFemke HooijbergSadaf AtiqiMaureen LeeuwErik H VogelzangJim KeijserSofie KeijzerFloris C LoeffMartijn GerritsenSander W TasMichael T NurmohamedTheo RispensGertjan WolbinkPublished in: RMD open (2024)
The vast majority of participants, among which elderly and patients with rheumatic diseases, were able to successfully draw the required amount of blood for serological analyses. This shows that finger-prick testing is suitable for a high-throughput implementation to monitor patients remotely.