serum protein measurement

[pnrobinson]

I am not sure if there is a use case for having separate terms for

protein measurement
and
serum protein measurement

-- if this is not really needed, we should probably obsolete all of the serum X measurement terms? @LCCarmody

[LCCarmody]

Well, there are serum protein measurement terms, urine protein measurement terms, csf protein measurement terms. Sometimes it is specified and sometimes not.

This is a separate term from total protein measurement.

Do you mean that protein measurement I blood and serum protein measurement should be merged?

[pnrobinson]

There are several different ways of preparing blood for testing and sometimes this is necessary to be able to actually measure the analyte, but this is generally fixed for a given test and I cannot think of any case where we would want to say "serum X text" but not "plasma X test", and so it seems we should just have one each for simplicity.