Properties and units in the clinical laboratory sciences Part XII. Properties and units in clinical pharmacology and toxicology (technical report)

The term designating a substance being an active ingredient of a drug may b e a generic name, a nonproprietary name, a registered trade name, a fantasy name, or other. This causes difficulties in the transmission of requests a nd reports on properties for such substances in biological fluids to and fr om the clinical laboratories, and in the collating of this information from different sources. The document comprises a list of properties of drugs in biological fluids f or use in electronic transmission systems. Systematic names an presented to gether with a code value for each.