'False-positive'and 'false-negative'test results in clinical urine drug testing

GM Reisfield, BA Goldberger, RL Bertholf - Bioanalysis, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
The terms 'false-positive'and 'false-negative'are widely used in discussions of urine drug test
(UDT) results. These terms are inadequate because they are used in different ways by …

Commonly prescribed medications and potential false-positive urine drug screens

NC Brahm, LL Yeager, MD Fox… - American Journal of …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Purpose The implications of potential false-positive urine drug screen (UDS) results for
patients receiving commonly prescribed medications were evaluated. Summary A …

Clinical interpretation of urine drug tests: what clinicians need to know about urine drug screens

KE Moeller, JC Kissack, RS Atayee, KC Lee - Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 2017 - Elsevier
Urine drug testing is frequently used in clinical, employment, educational, and legal settings
and misinterpretation of test results can result in significant adverse consequences for the …

[PDF][PDF] False positive and false negative results in urine drug screening tests: tampering methods and specimen integrity tests

B Riahi-Zanjani - Pharmacologyonline, 2014 - pharmacologyonline.silae.it
Urine drug screening can detect cases of drug abuse, promote workplace safety, and
monitor drugtherapy compliance. Compliance testing is necessary for patients taking …

False-positive interferences of common urine drug screen immunoassays: a review

A Saitman, HD Park, RL Fitzgerald - Journal of analytical …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Urine drug screen (UDS) immunoassays are a quick and inexpensive method for
determining the presence of drugs of abuse. Many cross-reactivities exist with other …

Provider misinterpretation, documentation, and follow-up of definitive urine drug testing results

I Chua, AK Petrides, GD Schiff, JR Ransohoff… - Journal of general …, 2020 - Springer
Background Urine drug testing (UDT) is an essential tool to monitor opioid misuse among
patients on chronic opioid therapy. Inaccurate interpretation of UDT can have deleterious …

Performance of five non-instrumented urine drug-testing devices with challenging near-cutoff specimens

LJ Kadehjian - Journal of analytical toxicology, 2001 - academic.oup.com
A comparison of five non-instrumented urine drug-testing devices was performed using a
challenging clinical specimen set with drug concentrations close to the immunoassay …

Systematic investigations of novel validity parameters in urine drug testing and prevalence of urine adulteration in a two‐year cohort

J Kluge, L Rentzsch, D Remane… - Drug testing and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Urinalysis is well established for drug screening. Various methods of urine adulteration such
as dilution, addition of oxidative/reductive chemicals or detergents, and handing over urine …

Laboratory and clinical evaluation of on-site urine drug testing

O Beck, S Carlsson, M Tusic, R Olsson… - … Journal of Clinical …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Aim. Products for on-site urine drug testing offer the possibility to perform screening for drugs
of abuse directly at the point-of-care. This is a well-established routine in emergency and …

[HTML][HTML] Buyer beware: pitfalls in toxicology laboratory testing

DA Algren, MR Christian - Missouri Medicine, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Urine drug screens are commonly used in various clinical settings and situations.
Immunoassays are the most commonly available method of testing for urine drug screens in …