title: Therapeutic drug analysis and the clinical laboratory.
abstract: This paper presents a general review of the rapidly expanding area of therapeutic drug monitoring and discusses the reasons for measuring serum drug levels. The assay methods commonly used in the clinical laboratory--including gas chromatography, high pressure liquid chromatography, radioimmunoassay, enzyme multiplied immunoassay and fluorescent immunoassay--are discussed. Unique characteristics of the commonly monitored drugs are presented.
mesh_terms: D002849:Chromatography, Gas; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; D004358:Drug Therapy; D006801:Humans; D007124:Immunoenzyme Techniques; D008297:Male; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations / Q000097:blood*; D011863:Radioimmunoassay
chemical_list: D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations