Drug testing, commonly used in health care, workplace, and criminal settings, has become
widespread during the past decade. Urine drug screens have been the most common …

Purpose The implications of potential false-positive urine drug screen (UDS) results for
patients receiving commonly prescribed medications were evaluated. Summary A …

Urine drug screening can enhance workplace safety, monitor medication compliance, and
detect drug abuse. Ordering and interpreting these tests requires an understanding of …

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 …

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 …

Urine drug testing is an essential component of monitoring patients who are receiving long-
term opioid therapy, and it has been suggested for patients receiving long-term …

Background: The term drug screen is a misnomer since it implies screening for all drugs,
which is not possible. Current practice is to limit the testing to the examination of serum for …

In response to questions about the reliability of the results of screening urine for drugs, we
evaluated the performance of 13 laboratories, which serve a total of 262 methadone …

Urine drug testing plays an important role in monitoring licit and illicit drug use for both
medico-legal and clinical purposes. One of the major challenges of urine drug testing is …

The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) drug testing standards were
published in 1988 and revised in 1994, 1998, and 2004. In 2004, significant revisions …