Urine Testing, 1978

Advanced urine toxicology testing.

Urine toxicology screening testing is an important standard of care in the addiction and pain treatment setting, offering a reproducible, unbiased, and accurate laboratory test to monitor patients and provide objective support for clinical observations. It has been shown that physicians do not have proficiency in the ordering or interpretation of these tests. This article is an attempt to respo...

Testing urine for drugs

Urine testing for diabetic analysis

Urine testing is relatively cheap and easy to do. Urine testing can be used to check for blood in the urine, to check for infection (by detecting the presence of white blood cells or protein) and can show up other systemic problems such as liver problems (by showing abnormal bilirubin levels). Urine testing can also detect ketones in the urine. Ketones are by-products of metabolism which form i...

Urine color testing and isoniazid monitoring.

2003;124;2405 Chest Graham F. Cope and Ruth Whitfield Urine Color Testing and Isoniazid Monitoring /chest/124/6/2405.full.html and services can be found online on the World Wide Web at: The online version of this article, along with updated information ) ISSN:0012-3692 http://www.chestjournal.org/misc/reprints.shtml ( of the copyright holder. may be reproduced or distributed without the prior w...

Urine drug testing in pain medicine.

The use of urine drug testing (UDT) has increased over recent years. UDT results have traditionally been used in legal proceedings under supervision of a medical review officer (MRO). In this context, testing has been required by statute or regulation and so is typically not in the "donor's" interest. Physicians, however, can use UDT to assist in monitoring their patient's treatment plan. By us...