Patient Centric Sampling Interest Group

The Patient Centric Sampling Interest Group (PCSIG) is a not for profit Community Interest Company, incorporated in the UK. It is a global collaborative collective of individuals and organizations who have a shared interest in promoting patient centric sampling approaches. They are unified by their interest in facilitating the development and implementation of novel sample collection technologies for integration into standard of care.

​The group is focused on fostering a broader understanding and future widespread implementation of these technologies and serves as a clearing-house for information that helps support this cause. Furthermore, the group’s aim is to become the industry catalyst for innovation, technology transfer and the sharing of best practice between members, leading to better outcomes for these organizations and the end consumers of the technologies developed. This will be accomplished as a collaborative association, which is free to join for individuals and is funded by sponsorship.

Patient centric sampling is an approach for obtaining high quality biological samples (e.g. blood, plasma, urine, etc) from humans at any time and in any location for the determination of circulating concentrations of molecules of interest or the examination of cell types and quantities. These concentrations are routinely used to assist in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and for a number of other applications, including development of new drugs, drug testing in sport, determination of nutritional status, etc.

​The aim of patient centric sampling approach is to minimize the impact on the person from which the sample is being collected and, in many cases, increase access by a patient to their own health status information. In some cases, it may be possible for the person to collect the sample themselves, or with the help of a care giver. Technologies involved in the patient centric sampling approach may enable the blood sample to be collected in a setting that is more convenient for the person, such as their home, or a local pharmacy. It differs from traditional venous blood sampling in that samples are obtained from regions of the body such as the finger, the upper arm, or lower back, rendering the blood collection less painful.

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