Dear colleagues.
I would like to be able to advise our paediatric and neonatal clinicians as to which tests can be done in either venous or capillary thumb- / heel-prick blood and which tests give different results in these specimen types. I have been compiling the evidence test by test but it has been slow going, and it would be better if there was a definitive high-quality evidence source covering the main clinical chemistry analytes (including common endocrine tests eg PTH, Cortisol, TFT etc). My many searches of databases have drawn a blank, so I hope I can call on the collective wisdom because I'm sure someone out there will know of the exact paper or data source I need!
Thanks in anticipation,
BW
Chris
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