Description : | In India chronic renal disease (CRD) has a prevalence of amount 800 per million. CRD progression to end stage renal disease can be prevented by measuring raised urinary albumin/creatinine ratio in susceptible patients. The solution is a indigenous, low cost, albumin//creatinine ratio dipstick along with a phone based strip reader (uchek), modified to read the strips, and act as a mass-screening tool thus preventing CRD to take its course. The strips and device performed well with respect to the predicate device and showed a sensitivity of 91% with a specificity of 83%. The device and strip has a PPV of 87% while a NPV of 90%. |