Assessment of the accuracy of salivary cotinine readings from NicAlert strips against a liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry assay in self-reported non-smokers who passed carbon monoxide but failed NicAlert validation.
Jean-François EtterPublished in: Addiction (Abingdon, England) (2019)
In people who had passed carbon monoxide verification, NicAlert readings yielded a very high false-positive rate in detecting levels of cotinine indicative of smoking.