Open AccessUSE OF LABORATORY MARKERS AND THE AUDIT QUESTIONNAIRE BY PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIANS TO DETECT ALCOHOL ABUSE BY PATIENTS
Author(s) -
Mauri Aalto,
Kaija Seppä
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/agh219
Subject(s) - audit , primary care , alcohol abuse , medicine , family medicine , psychiatry , alcohol , medical emergency , biochemistry , management , economics , chemistry
To evaluate how often laboratory markers [Mean corpuscular volume (MCV), Gamma-glutamyl transferase, Aspartate aminotransferase, Alanine aminotransferase, or Carbohydrate-deficient transferrin (CDT)] and the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) are used to detect alcohol abuse in primary health care.
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