Urine drug testing (UDT) has become an essential component in the management of
patients prescribed opioid analgesics for the treatment of chronic non-malignant pain …

Should society's concern for safety and productivity prevail over the individual employee's
right of privacy with respect to mandatory drug testing? The author argues that the inability of …

It is essential to understand that any rapid urine drugs-of-abuse screening test should be
confirmed by an equally sensitive and more specific test. In this regard, the confirmation …

As part of a program to develop accreditation guidelines for urine drug testing laboratories, a
pilot study for proficiency testing was conducted. Fifty civilian, commercial laboratories were …

Objective: To assess requesting patterns and clinical utility of urine drug screens (UDS).
Methods: All UDS requests received between March 2002 and October 2002 were …

Background: This study examines the effect of creatinine normalization on urine drug
concentrations of 5 substances (amphetamines, cocaine, marijuana, opiates, and …

Legal issues are important in drug testing programs, and the most legally defensible drug
testing method is to screen urine samples with the enzyme-mediated immunoassay …

Urine drug screens are commonly performed to identify drug use or monitor adherence to
drug therapy. The purpose of this retrospective study was to evaluate the true positive and …