How often to repeat an extended blood test, and what it can and cannot measure
An extended panel measures a few dozen analytes. How to choose them, how to space the draws, and how to store the results so you can compute on them.
Tag: loinc
6 posts
What Baseline Blood Work Measures, and How to Store It So It Compounds
A specific panel to start from, the pre-analytical variables that corrupt a longitudinal series, and how to decide whether a change between two draws is real.
How to Read Your Own Lab Work Like a Data Problem
A working guide to pulling your lab results out of a patient portal as structured data, normalizing them, and analyzing them with the right statistics: reference intervals, analytical and biological variation, and reference change values.
How to Analyze Your Own Blood Test Results Online
A working guide to pulling your lab data out of patient portals, normalizing it into one machine-readable table, computing derived values yourself, and telling a real change from assay noise.
How to Build a Blood Test Tracker You Own
The best blood test tracker is a long-format table you control plus fifty lines of Python. No app is needed. Covers the schema and LOINC codes.
Own Your Labs: Ordering Your Own Blood Work and Keeping the Data
What direct-access lab testing is, how self-ordered blood work is priced, and how to store and interpret your own results as structured data rather than PDFs.