Assessment of Stability of Mail-in Capillary Hemoglobin A1c Test Kit

Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas City

Status: Completed

Conditions: Diabetes

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00511030

07 06-084E

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine the stability of capillary HBA1c blood samples collected by the participant with this kit and mailed to the laboratory at Children's Mercy Hospital.

Full description

Participants are given home lab kit for obtaining HbA1c by capillary blood and shipping it to Children's Mercy Hospital and Clinics. They will mail in sample before their next visit and this result will be compared to the HbA1c performed during this visit.

Enrollment: 23 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 1 to 17 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Male or female diabetic patients ages 1-17 years who have an A1c test drawn within 24 hours
• Participants receiving medical care in the Endocrine Clinic at Children's Mercy Hospital

Exclusion criteria

• Not meeting above inclusion criteria