Urine drug testing is an important tool utilized by providers to assess medication compliance
in all medical specialties including palliative care. Due to its superior sensitivity and …

Urine drug screens are valuable clinical tools that can help to inform clinicians when their
patients are taking drugs that are not prescribed for them and also can help identify …

Background: Urine drug testing is used by health care providers to determine a patient's
compliance to their prescribed regimen and to detect non-prescribed medications and illicit …

Objectives: The major objective of this research was to propose a simplified approach for the
evaluation of medication adherence in chronic pain management patients, using liquid …

Hypertension is one of the most important modifiable risk factor causing cardiovascular
disease. Unfortunately, non-adherence to antihypertensive medications is frequently …

Biochemical testing in urine is a powerful new tool in the investigation of non-adherence to
cardiovascular medications Drug testing using liquid chromatography tandem mass …

Simple Summary A urine drug test (UDT) is often used in the treatment of cancer pain to
monitor compliance with opioid treatment. Two types of UDT are commonly for this purpose …

Objective. This study investigates the frequency at which quantitative results provide
additional clinical benefit compared to qualitative results alone. A comparison between …

BACKGROUND: Effective urine drug testing requires an understanding of the stability of
medications, metabolites and other substances excreted in the urine matrix. When the …

Adulteration of samples submitted for toxicological analyses can present unique challenges
to non-forensic clinical laboratories. With the number of overdose-related deaths expected to …