@article{ref1,
title="Legal blood alcohol testing in the U.S. Military",
journal="Military medicine",
year="2017",
author="Platteborze, Peter L. and Wilhelms, Kelly W.",
volume="182",
number="1",
pages="e1558-e1561",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: To retrospectively analyze multiple years of legal blood alcohol test (LBAT) results as part of a laboratory process improvement plan. <br><br>METHODS: We analyzed the LBAT requests received by the Brooke Army Medical Center during calendar years 2013 and 2014. <br><br>RESULTS: We received 365 samples from 11 installations; 351 were tested and 14 were rejected. Nearly one-third of the tested samples had negligible ethanol levels. One installation was responsible for submitting 10 rejected samples which prompted laboratory intervention. <br><br>CONCLUSION: The ability to perform timely LBATs is invaluable to the Department of Defense as the results are more readily accepted in a court of law than routine clinical ethanol test results.<br><br>Reprint & Copyright © 2017 Association of Military Surgeons of the U.S.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0026-4075",
doi="10.7205/MILMED-D-16-00007",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.7205/MILMED-D-16-00007"
}