Patient Centric Blood Sampling and Quantitative Analysis - Wiley Series on Pharmaceutical Science and Biotechnology: Practices, Applications and Methods

The proposed book focuses on the growing interest in alternative means to standard phlebotomy and analytical workflows for the collection of high-quality blood samples and their analysis for the quantitative determination of circulating drugs, their metabolites and endogenous substances. This is reflected in the increase in the numbers of publications referring to dried blood spot sampling and microsampling.

The term patient centric sampling has been coined for this new approach to blood sampling for the quantitative determination of circulating analytes, as it is putting the human subject at the centre of blood sampling and analysis approaches. This book outlines what patient centric blood sampling is, what techniques and approaches are available and in development for the collection and analysis of the samples, and what this might mean for human healthcare and wellbeing. The book is composed of chapters focussing on giving the reader an understanding of the science and its implications and provides practical approaches to successful implementation for existing and developing purposes and workflows. The book, edited by Spooner, Ehrenfeld, Siple and Lee, are recognized experts in this field with additional experts in the field enlisted to write the component chapters enabling greater depth and detail to be added and further raising the scientific standing of the publication. The key aim of the books is to be a comprehensive resource for patient centric sampling for many different types of laboratories including pharmaceutical, clinical, and research laboratories. In conjunction to this aim the content of this book should give the reader a broad understanding of what patient centric sampling is and where it might be applied for existing and potential future areas. Further, it gives detailed information as to how the technologies and workflows might be readily implemented.
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