CONCORDANCE OF TWO IMMUNOLOGICAL METHODS TO DETERMINE URINARY BENZODIAZEPINE METABOLITES
Due to the great number of commercial tests available in the market to determine urinary benzodiazepine metabolites, we decided to assess the concordance between two immunological tests available in the Toxicology lab in our hospital. Urine samples received in our lab were analyzed by both methods a...
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Escuela de Salud Pública y Ambiente. Fac. Cs. Médicas UNC
2019
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/RSD/article/view/21974 |
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| Sumario: | Due to the great number of commercial tests available in the market to determine urinary benzodiazepine metabolites, we decided to assess the concordance between two immunological tests available in the Toxicology lab in our hospital. Urine samples received in our lab were analyzed by both methods at the same time. Statistics tests of Kappa and Chi-Square are used for evaluation. The usefulness of these tests in cases of the diagnostic suspicion of benzodiazepine consumption in certain pathologies deserves the availability of these immunological tests since they can provide results in a short time which will let the medical professional make timely decisions regarding the problem presented by the patient. In this work we have been able to verify that both methods show good concordance (Kappa Test = 0.88) so, both can be indistinctly used for the cases presented by the Toxicology lab. |
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