Alcohol abuse: prevalence and detection in a general hospital
- 1 February 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
- Vol. 95 (2), 84-87
- https://doi.org/10.1258/jrsm.95.2.84
Abstract
Despite a high prevalence of alcohol-related disabilities and the availability of cost-effective interventions, alcohol abuse and dependence commonly go undetected in hospital inpatients. In a university teaching hospital we compared three well validated screening methods for sensitivity and specificity—the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT, with various cut-off scores), CAGE (a four-question screening tool), and a 10-question version of the Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test (BMAST). A subset of patients also completed the DSM IV structured clinical interview for diagnosis. 1133 adult patients were randomly selected from all hospital admissions, with exclusion of day cases and patients too ill to be interviewed.Keywords
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