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 …

Urine drug screening: practical guide for clinicians

KE Moeller, KC Lee, JC Kissack - Mayo clinic proceedings, 2008 - Elsevier
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 …

High concentrations of illicit stimulants and cutting agents cause false positives on fentanyl test strips

TLE Lockwood, A Vervoordt, M Lieberman - Harm reduction journal, 2021 - Springer
Background The opioid epidemic has caused an increase in overdose deaths which can be
attributed to fentanyl combined with various illicit substances. Drug checking programs have …

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 …

Interpretation of urine drug testing in pain patients

A Pesce, C West, K Egan City, J Strickland - Pain Medicine, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Background. Traditionally, urine drug screens have only been concerned with positive or
negative results. Those results provide physicians treating patients for pain with chronic …

A retrospective analysis of urine drugs of abuse immunoassay true positive rates at a national reference laboratory

KL Johnson-Davis, AJ Sadler… - Journal of Analytical …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
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 …

Poisoning among the elderly

JP Ferrando, SM Corrales, GF Juan… - Revista Clínica …, 2021 - Elsevier
Objectives Poisonings continue to be an important public health problem. Herein, we
analyzed the epidemiology of poisonings in elderly individuals. Methods Retrospective …

Psychiatric and non-psychiatric drugs causing false-positive amphetamines urine test in psychiatric patients: a pharmacovigilance analysis using FAERS

V Battini, G Cirnigliaro, L Giacovelli… - Expert Review of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Immunoassay urine drug screen (UDS) is frequently used in clinical practice for
initial screening process, being generally available, fast, and inexpensive. Exposure to …

Intoxicaciones en la tercera edad

JP Ferrando, SM Corrales, GF Juan… - Revista Clínica …, 2021 - Elsevier
Objetivos Las intoxicaciones siguen siendo un problema de salud pública importante. En el
presente estudio evaluamos la epidemiología de las intoxicaciones en la tercera edad …

[HTML][HTML] False-positive urine screening for benzodiazepines: an association with sertraline?: a two-year retrospective chart analysis

KM Nasky, GL Cowan, DR Knittel - Psychiatry (Edgmont), 2009 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Objective: To determine the frequency of false-positive benzodiazepine screens associated
with sertraline use at the authors' institution. Method: Urine drug screen results spanning a …