The possibilities and applications of modern hair analytics have rapidly developed in recent years. The compounds that can be detected in hair comprise, next to a multitude of drugs, also medications, alcohol markers, and endogenous compound like the stress hormone cortisol. Hair analysis is suitable for both forensic and clinical applications because it enables a retrospective overview of the consumption behavior during an extended time interval.
Keywords: Compliance Monitoring; Haaranalyse; Therapeutic Drug Monitoring; analyse des cheveux; compliance monitoring; hair analysis; monitorage de l'observance thérapeutique; monitorage prospectif et rétrospectif des malades; monitorage thérapeutique; prospektives Patienten-Monitoring; retrospective and prospective patient-monitoring; retrospektiver Nachweis; therapeutic drug monitoring.