Disparate Utilization of Urine Drug Screen Nationwide in the Evaluation of Acute Chest Pain

Introduction: Urine drug screens (UDS) have unproven clinical utility in emergency department (ED) chest pain presentations. A test with such limited clinical utility may exponentiate biases in care, but little is known about the epidemiology of UDS use for this indication. We hypothesized that UDS...

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Main Authors: Daniel L. Overbeek, Alexander T. Janke, C.James Watson, Rama A. Salhi, Erin Kim, Dowin Boatright, Eve D. Losman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eScholarship Publishing, University of California 2023-03-01
Series:Western Journal of Emergency Medicine
Online Access:https://escholarship.org/uc/item/29z8t886