On Wed, 31 Mar 2021 12:01:48 +0100, Andrew
wrote:

On 30/03/2021 21:09, T i m wrote:
On Tue, 30 Mar 2021 19:46:24 +0100, Andrew
wrote:

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The is no such thing as a 'standard' blood test, just as there is
no such thing as a 'standard' disease.

No, but there could be a standard range of tests they apply to 'most
people having a 'routine blood test'?


None of which will include any sort of 'antibody' test unless you
are having blood crossmatched.

Quite, as John said a few posts back?

The only 'standard' blood tests are typically full blood count,
and a whole range of biochemistry tests that are grouped into
Liver Function tests, U&E's, bone screens, cardiac markers etc.

Ok.

These groupings typically exist because the analysers that
do them churn out multiple parameters from *one* sample,
i.e. EDTA for FBC, Heparin and Clotted serum for biochemistry.

Makes sense.

Cheers, T i m