Medical examiner response to the drug overdose epidemic in King County Washington:“Real‐time” surveillance, data science, and applied forensic epidemiology

RC Harruff, NA Yarid, WL Barbour… - Journal of forensic …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
As the overdose epidemic overwhelmed medicolegal death investigation offices and
toxicology laboratories, the King County Medical Examiner's Office responded with “real …

The North American opioid epidemic: opportunities and challenges for clinical laboratories

SR Delaney, DH Tacker… - Critical Reviews in Clinical …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Since 1999, the opioid epidemic in North America has resulted in over 1 million deaths, and
it continues to escalate despite numerous efforts in various arenas to combat the upward …

Assessing knowledge gaps and educational needs in urine drug test interpretation among health care professionals

CLH Snozek, CI Yee, J Bryksin, R Dahal… - American Journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Objectives Urine drug testing (UDT) is a critical tool used in medical, forensic, and
occupational settings, but interpreting results can be challenging. We performed a study to …

Evaluation of “real-time” fatal drug overdose surveillance by King County medical Examiner's office, Seattle, Washington

R Harruff, CM Simpson, AL Gifford… - The American Journal …, 2023 - journals.lww.com
To address the challenges in monitoring the continuously accelerating drug overdose
epidemic, the King County Medical Examiner's Office in Seattle, Washington, instituted a …

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 …

A rapid detection method of drug quality based on RFID technology

B Yang, B Sun - International Journal of Internet …, 2022 - inderscienceonline.com
Aiming at the problems of slow drug data acquisition speed and large detection error in the
existing drug quality detection methods, a fast drug quality detection method based on RFID …