Evaluating the Reliability of Dipstick Drug Screens on Vitreous and Postmortem Blood as a Triage Modality in Forensic Pathology

L Gitto, M Mir, P Arunkumar - Academic Forensic Pathology, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Dipstick drug screens are cheap, easy to use, and quick presumptive tests to detect common
drugs of abuse. Dipsticks are designed for drug detection in urine. There is no literature …

[PDF][PDF] False positive urine drug screens: what clinicians should know and when the laboratory should be consulted

SE Melanson, B Magnani - News Path, 2006 - Citeseer
Urine drug screens (UDS) are frequently ordered on patients who exhibit symptoms of
intoxication, experience trauma or offer a history of drug ingestion. 1 Rapid and accurate …

[HTML][HTML] Common opioids and stimulants in autopsy and DUID cases: A comparison of measured concentrations

SK Hermansen, DJ Christoffersen - Forensic science international, 2022 - Elsevier
Quantitative results from toxicological analyses of autopsy material are widely compared to
ranges in reference works to determine if drug concentrations are in relevant levels for …

Screening postmortem blood and tissues for nine cases of drugs of abuse using automated microplate immunoassay

KA Moore, C Werner, RM Zannelli, B Levine… - Forensic science …, 1999 - Elsevier
A commercially available enzyme-linked immunosorbant assay (ELISA) was evaluated as a
screening procedure for the detection of nine classes of abused drugs in postmortem blood …

Method comparison of EMIT II and ONLINE with RIA for drug screening

DA Armbruster, RH Schwarzhoff… - Journal of …, 1993 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
The newest formulation of the EMIT assay for drugs of abuse, EMIT II, and a new
immunoassay, OnLine, using the kinetic interaction of microparticles in solution …

Unauthorized drug use in the US Army based on medical review officer evaluations

PL Platteborze, DJ Kippenberger… - Journal of analytical …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
This article examines the US Army's Medical Review Officer (MRO) drug positive urinalysis
evaluations from 2009 through 2012. We retrospectively analyzed nearly 70,000 MRO …

[HTML][HTML] Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring II in the United States, 2012 (Restricted Use)

D Hunt - 2013 - icpsr.umich.edu
The Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring II, 2012 is a collection of interview and bioassay data
provided by over 3000 arrestees from five county sites within the United States. Under the …

Validation of a microtiter plate ELISA for screening of postmortem blood for opiates and benzodiazepines

P Kemp, G Sneed, T Kupiec… - Journal of analytical …, 2002 - academic.oup.com
The object of this study was to evaluate the suitability of the Neogen Corp. microtiter plate
enzyme-linked immunoassays (ELISA) for opiates and benzodiazepines for screening of …

Evaluation of in‐house drug evidence testing by King County Medical Examiner's Office in “real‐time” fatal overdose surveillance

RC Harruff, WL Barbour… - Journal of Forensic …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
With the escalating overdose epidemic, many surveillance efforts have appeared. In 2018,
King County Medical Examiner's Office (KCMEO) initiated a fatal overdose surveillance …

Evaluation of an automated reader and color interpretation-based immunoassays for multiplexed drug-of-abuse testing in urine

SY Kim, H Kim, Y Park, J Lim, J Kim… - Journal of Analytical …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
On-site drugs of abuse testing devices have undergone continuous improvement. We
evaluated three devices with different designs: an automated reader, the Multi-Drug Screen …