Patent ID: 7473233

Claim:
A computer based method for determining if a participant should be tested for drugs, comprising the steps of: (a) placing a monitoring device on the participant to record data of the participant; (b) creating a predetermined set of sleep pattern criteria for the participant, each sleep pattern criteria having assigned to it a criteria value; (c) defining a plurality of benchmarks to apply to the data; (d) calculating a set of measurements from the benchmarks, each measurement having a measurement value as determined from the data; (e) defining a plurality of tests, each of the plurality of tests using at least one of the measurement values from the set of measurements; (f) applying each of the plurality of tests by comparing the measurement values from each of the plurality of tests to the sleep pattern criteria values for the participant for determining a plurality of test results corresponding to each of the plurality of tests; (g) analyzing each of the plurality of test results for making a final determination of the results; and (h) providing notification of the final determination of the results and whether the participant should be tested for drugs.