Urine Drug Testing - Misinterpretation is Very Common

An episode of the Hospital and Internal Medicine Podcast podcast, hosted by Gil Porat, M.D., FACP, CPT, titled "Urine Drug Testing - Misinterpretation is Very Common" was published on May 28, 2017 and runs 21 minutes.

May 28, 2017 ·21m · Hospital and Internal Medicine Podcast

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Summary

You know all those people on social media wanting mandatory drug testing for welfare recipients? Perhaps, reasonable in theory, if the test wasn't frequently producing false-positives and false-negatives. Making accurate clinical decisions is always challenging, but particularly with urine drug testing. The consequences of misinterpretation can be awful.

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You know all those people on social media wanting mandatory drug testing for welfare recipients? Perhaps, reasonable in theory, if the test wasn't frequently producing false-positives and false-negatives. Making accurate clinical decisions is always challenging, but particularly with urine drug testing. The consequences of misinterpretation can be awful.

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