Test category · Laboratory

Toxicology & drug monitoring

Measuring medicines with a narrow safety margin, screening for drugs of misuse and detecting poisons, gases and heavy metals.

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No test in this category has a full page yet. The concepts below are catalogued and waiting to be written to the site's quality standard.

Also in this category: catalogued concepts

Canonical test concepts of this category that do not yet have their own page. They are listed so that the taxonomy is complete and searchable; a page is written only when it can meet the quality standard.

  • Urine drug screen (UDS) · also: urine drug testing Laboratory test
  • Ethanol level · also: blood alcohol Laboratory test
  • Paracetamol level · also: acetaminophen level Laboratory test
  • Salicylate level · also: aspirin level Laboratory test
  • Lithium level · also: serum lithium Laboratory test
  • Digoxin level Laboratory test
  • Valproate level Laboratory test
  • Carbamazepine level Laboratory test
  • Phenytoin level Laboratory test
  • Phenobarbital level Laboratory test
  • Theophylline level Laboratory test
  • Vancomycin level · also: vancomycin trough Laboratory test
  • Aminoglycoside level · also: gentamicin level Laboratory test
  • Tacrolimus level Laboratory test
  • Ciclosporin level · also: cyclosporine level Laboratory test
  • Sirolimus level Laboratory test
  • Methotrexate level Laboratory test
  • Opioid testing Laboratory test
  • Benzodiazepine testing Laboratory test
  • Amphetamine testing Laboratory test
  • Cocaine metabolite testing · also: benzoylecgonine Laboratory test
  • Cannabinoid testing · also: THC test Laboratory test
  • Barbiturate testing Laboratory test
  • Fentanyl testing Laboratory test
  • Methadone testing Laboratory test
  • Toxic alcohols · also: methanol and ethylene glycol Laboratory test
  • Carboxyhaemoglobin (COHb) · also: carbon monoxide level Laboratory test
  • Methaemoglobin (MetHb) · also: methemoglobin Laboratory test
  • Heavy metal screen Laboratory test
  • Lead level · also: blood lead Laboratory test
  • Mercury level Laboratory test
  • Arsenic level Laboratory test
  • Cholinesterase activity · also: pesticide exposure testing Laboratory test
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