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A Belfast Study of the Prediction of Outcome in the Treatment of Alcoholism *
Author(s) -
Blaney Roger,
Radford Inge S.,
MacKenzie Gilbert
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
british journal of addiction to alcohol and other drugs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.424
H-Index - 193
eISSN - 1360-0443
pISSN - 0007-0890
DOI - 10.1111/j.1360-0443.1975.tb00006.x
Subject(s) - outcome (game theory) , numbering , psychiatry , association (psychology) , medicine , psychology , emergency medicine , psychotherapist , computer science , mathematics , mathematical economics , programming language
Summary There are two main alcoholism treatment facilities serving the Belfast area, one being a general psychiatric hospital and the other a specialised unit. Alcoholic patients who had been hospitalised in each, numbering 114 and 104 respectively, were successfully followed up with the aim of establishing whether it was possible to predict the outcome of treatment on the basis of certain variables. It was concluded that the variables investigated did not show a strong or consistent enough association with outcome to provide a reliable method of prediction.