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Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Urine Drug Testing
Joseph A Arthur1, Amy A Case2, Jai N Patel3
1University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA.
Abstract:
Opioid therapy is a key component of palliative care delivery but may sometimes be associated with complications such as nonmedical opioid use (NMOU) behavior. Clinicians are encouraged to adopt risk-mitigation strategies to minimize NMOU while optimizing opioid prescribing practices. Urine drug testing (UDT) is usually implemented in palliative care (PC) settings to mitigate such risks, but its role is not well-defined. In this article, a group of PC specialists with specific clinical and research interests and expertise in UDT offers 10 tips regarding the current evidence surrounding UDT, its appropriate application, interpretation of results, and the utilization of test results within the PC context. The goal is to inform practicing PC clinicians regarding the use of UDT in routine opioid therapy.
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