ESPE2021 ePoster Category 2 Diabetes and insulin (72 abstracts)
HbA1C stability – is posting samples reliable?
Nicola Davey , Katherine Wright & Anuja Natarajan
The Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Doncaster, United Kingdom.
For the safe delivery of Paediatric Diabetes services at DBTH during the COVID pandemic a postal HbA1c service with patients collecting capillary blood samples to send to the laboratory for analysis was proposed. The aim of this pilot study was to assess stability of HbA1c at ambient temperature in capillary whole blood samples collected into Sarstedt Microvette EDTA tubes. Samples were analysed on the day of collection on the TOSOH G11 analyser and then re-assayed daily for up to 6 days to allow for postal delays. Acceptable stability was taken as a change of ≤4mmol/mol from the day of collection. The study indicates that a valid result can be expected to be obtained in 82% of samples analysed within 3 days of collection, which reduced to 50% after 4 days.
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