Each week, I asked Mater Pathology to test and send out two tubes of my blood, as follows:
- Receive Sample A directly from SNP and analyse it for MMA
- Send the remainder of Sample A to QHPS
- Receive Sample B from QHPS and analyse it for MMA
- Send the remainder of Sample B to Westmead
Also each week, I asked QHPS to test and send out two tubes of my blood, as follows:
- Receive Sample B directly from SNP and analyse it for MMA
- Send the remainder of Sample B to Mater Pathology
- Receive Sample A from Mater Pathology and analyse it for MMA
- Send the remainder of Sample A to Westmead
I asked Westmead to do the following:
- Analyse all samples, in a single batch, for MMA
- Store the samples; later tested for homocysteine and sent out to PaLMS
The sample exchange process, for acquiring MMA results, is shown in the following diagram:
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