Microsampling: a patient-centred approach to therapeutic drug monitoring

Having a blood sample taken, usually by a phlebotomist in a clinic, is an often unpleasant but necessary step in monitoring medical conditions and some medicines. However, Neil Spooner, bioanalyst and co-founder and chair of the not-for-profit Patient Centric Sampling Interest Group, hopes that, for some patients, this will be replaced by blood microsampling.