COMBINING THE AUDIT QUESTIONNAIRE AND BIOCHEMICAL MARKERS TO ASSESS ALCOHOL USE AND RISK OF ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL IN MEDICAL INPATIENTS | Zendy

J. Dolman | Zendy; Neil Hawkes | Zendy

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COMBINING THE AUDIT QUESTIONNAIRE AND BIOCHEMICAL MARKERS TO ASSESS ALCOHOL USE AND RISK OF ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL IN MEDICAL INPATIENTS

Author(s) -

J. Dolman,

Neil Hawkes

Publication year - 2005

Publication title -

alcohol and alcoholism

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.747

H-Index - 99

eISSN - 1464-3502

pISSN - 0735-0414

DOI - 10.1093/alcalc/agh189

Subject(s) - medicine , alcohol use disorders identification test , alcohol withdrawal syndrome , alcohol , abstinence , prospective cohort study , audit , alcohol dependence , emergency medicine , psychiatry , poison control , injury prevention , economics , biochemistry , chemistry , management

Alcohol consumption is often under-reported in patients admitted to general hospitals with acute illness. For alcohol-dependent individuals hospital admission results in an enforced period of abstinence with potential alcohol withdrawal symptoms, and possible life threatening complications. Early detection of alcohol use is therefore beneficial to patients and health services. The purpose of this study was to investigate the performance of the alcohol use disorders identification test (AUDIT) questionnaire in the acute medical setting, and the effect of combining routine biological markers-glutamyltransferase, alanine aminotransferase, aspartate aminotransferase, and mean corpuscular volume (MCV) on its performance in the early identification of in-patients with alcohol use disorders and at risk of developing symptoms of alcohol withdrawal.

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