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| Title |
Using molecular similarity to highlight the challenges of routine immunoassay-based drug of abuse/toxicology screening in emergency medicine
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| Published in |
BMC Emergency Medicine, April 2009
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-227x-9-5 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Matthew D Krasowski, Anthony F Pizon, Mohamed G Siam, Spiros Giannoutsos, Manisha Iyer, Sean Ekins |
| Abstract |
Laboratory tests for routine drug of abuse and toxicology (DOA/Tox) screening, often used in emergency medicine, generally utilize antibody-based tests (immunoassays) to detect classes of drugs such as amphetamines, barbiturates, benzodiazepines, opiates, and tricyclic antidepressants, or individual drugs such as cocaine, methadone, and phencyclidine. A key factor in assay sensitivity and specificity is the drugs or drug metabolites that were used as antigenic targets to generate the assay antibodies. All DOA/Tox screening immunoassays can be limited by false positives caused by cross-reactivity from structurally related compounds. For immunoassays targeted at a particular class of drugs, there can also be false negatives if there is failure to detect some drugs or their metabolites within that class. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 59 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 2% |
| United States | 1 | 2% |
| Cyprus | 1 | 2% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 55 | 93% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Other | 11 | 19% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 11 | 19% |
| Researcher | 6 | 10% |
| Student > Master | 5 | 8% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 3 | 5% |
| Other | 14 | 24% |
| Unknown | 9 | 15% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 19 | 32% |
| Chemistry | 5 | 8% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 5 | 8% |
| Social Sciences | 3 | 5% |
| Psychology | 3 | 5% |
| Other | 14 | 24% |
| Unknown | 10 | 17% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 25 February 2013.
All research outputs
#5,622,290
of 22,699,621 outputs
Outputs from BMC Emergency Medicine
#230
of 746 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#25,967
of 92,775 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Emergency Medicine
#2
of 4 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 746 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 6.0. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 69% of its peers.
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