An Improved Test for Bilirubin in Urine

Abstract

IN the development of new methods for detecting bilirubin in urine technical simplicity has generally been sacrificed for increased sensitivity and specificity. As a consequence many clinicians, for lack of time and laboratory facilities, have continued to use the less complicated, but relatively crude, methods of the past. There is still a need, therefore, for a test that combines simplicity of technic with maximum sensitivity and specificity. Notable progress has been made along these lines in recent years, but none of the simple methods devised have achieved the sensitivity of the more elaborate procedures.The most sensitive methods depend on . . .