Temperature of Urine   58681-8

LOINC Code


LOINC code58681-8
nameTemperature of Urine
descriptionThis code is used to report the urine temperature at collection to show that it has not been tampered with (adulteration or swapping a clean urine for a fresh collection for a drug test).
statusACTIVE

Fully-Specified Name

componentTemperature
propertyTemp  =  Temperature
timePt  =  Point in time:  To identify measures at a point in time. This is a synonym for “spot” or “random” as applied to urine measurements.
systemUrine
scaleQn  =  Quantitative:  The result of the test is a numeric value that relates to a continuous numeric scale. Reported either as an integer, a ratio, a real number, or a range. The test result value may optionally contain a relational operator from the set {<=, <, >, >=}. Valid values for a quantitative test are of the form "7", "-7", "7.4", "-7.4", "7.8912", "0.125", "<10", "<10.15", ">12000", 1-10, 1:256
method

Additional Names

short nameTemp Ur

Basic Attributes

classSPEC
type1  Laboratory
order vs. observationObservation
example UCUM unitsCel
The Unified Code for Units of Measure (UCUM) is a code system intended to include all units of measures being contemporarily used in international science, engineering, and business (www.unitsofmeasure.org)
example unitdeg C

Associated Observations

LOINC codes that represent optional associated observation(s) for a clinical observation or laboratory test. A LOINC term may represent a single associated observation or panel containing several associated observations.

History/Usage

test rank2087 of 2000 most commonly performed tests by labs in USA
first released
last updated2.73
last change typeMIN  - change to field other than name

Related Names

Point in time
QNT
Quan
Quant
Quantitative
Random
SPEC
Temp
Temperature
UA
UR
Urn

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