Dried blood spots (DBS) have been used in newborn screening programs for several years.
More recently, there has been growing interest in using DBS as a home sampling tool for the …

Therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) is a specialized area of laboratory medicine which
involves the measurement of drug concentrations in biological fluids with the aim of …

Metabolome analysis is a key component of serum/plasma metabolomics studies for clinical
and biological applications. There are several steps involved, including pre-analytical …

In recent years, a lot of attention has been given to a more patient-centric therapeutic drug
monitoring (TDM) of immunosuppressant drugs (tacrolimus, sirolimus, everolimus and …

In the wake of the COVID‐19 global pandemic, self‐administered microsampling tools have
reemerged as an effective means to maintain routine healthcare assessments without …

Blood serves as the primary global biological matrix for health surveillance, disease
diagnosis, and response to drug treatment, holding significant promise for personalized …

Newborn screening (NBS) programs operate in many countries, processing millions of dried
bloodspot (DBS) samples annually. In addition to early identification of various adverse …

Advances in the technologies to enable patient‐centric sampling (PCS) have the potential to
improve blood sample collection by enabling clinical trial participants to collect samples via …

There are few fields of medicine in which the individualisation of medicines is more
important than in the area of oncology. Under‐dosing can have significant ramifications due …

Background and aim Dried blood spot (DBS) sampling has many advantages over
conventionally used blood samples, but is thought to suffer from hematocrit related issues …