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Opioid Use Disorder Assessment Tools and Drug Screening.
Mo Med
April 2020
James Ducharme, MD, is a Clinical Professor of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. Sean Moore, MD, is Assistant Professor, Northern ontario School of Medicine in Kenora, Ontario.
Opioid use disorder risk assessment tools cannot be used in isolation. In combination with standardized clinical examination, and, when indicated, urine drug screening, a validated risk assessment tool, improves the ability to detect opioid misuse. Even though no single tool has been shown to have both high interobserver reliability and high sensitivity, the standardized approach has still been shown to be superior to subjective care giver assessment.
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