Pragmatic procedures for detecting and documenting alcoholism in medical patients.

摘要: Although alcoholics are known to utilize a disproportionate amount of medical care, hospital patients not rountinely screened for alcoholism. A sample 310 randomly selected from two hospitals were administered structured diagnostic interview. More than one-third (35%) the men and 14% women met DSM-III criteria current alcohol use disorder an additional 27% 9% in remission. The practicality efficiency interviews is discussed along with potential small subset items serve as screen