ESPE Abstracts

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 u...