title: A dried blood spot update: still an important bioanalytical technique?
abstract: This article discusses the benefits of dried blood spot sampling and the recent issues that have emerged when this technique is used in the regulated quantitative bioanalytical environment. The author explores what the way forward might be for this important technique and what some of the unexpected benefits of this change in sampling methodologies have been.
authors.affiliation: Platform Technologies & Science, Drug Metabolism & Pharmacokinetics, GlaxoSmithKline Research & Development, Ware, Hertfordshire, SG12 0DP, UK. neil.spooner@gsk.com
authors.forename: Neil
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Spooner
mesh_terms: D016477:Artifacts; D001800:Blood Specimen Collection; D059788:Dried Blood Spot Testing; D006400:Hematocrit; D006801:Humans