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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ther Drug Monit. 2015 Oct;37(5):661–669. doi: 10.1097/FTD.0000000000000201

Table 6.

Diagnostic performance of NMS JWH-018 N-(5-hydroxypentyl) metabolite direct ELISA for 2492 urine samples. All samples confirmed by LC-MS/MS.

Cutoff 5 µg/L
in PBS
5 µg/L
in Urine
10 µg/L
in PBS
10 µg/L
in Urine
True Positive 262 242 226 207
True Negative 2174 2189 2195 2196
False Positive 29 14 8 7
False Negative 27 47 63 82

Sensitivity % 90.7 83.7 78.2 71.6
Specificity % 98.7 99.4 99.6 99.7
Efficiency % 97.8 97.6 97.2 96.4