A STUDY OF ALCOHOL RELATED PHYSICAL DISEASES IN GENERAL HOSPITAL PATIENTS

We studied the prevalence of harmful use of alcohol and alcohol related diseases in newly admitted patients in a general hospital. Two hundred and ninety seven patients were screened for alcohol use with Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT). Sixty one subjects (21%) had harmful pattern...

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Autores principales: Srinivasan, K., Augustine, Mary Kutty
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2000
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2958346/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21407951
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description We studied the prevalence of harmful use of alcohol and alcohol related diseases in newly admitted patients in a general hospital. Two hundred and ninety seven patients were screened for alcohol use with Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT). Sixty one subjects (21%) had harmful pattern of alcohol consumption. Of these twenty eight patients (9.4%) had alcohol-related diseases, while in 33 patients (11.1%) we did not find any association between alcohol use and hospital diagnoses. Physicians′ referral rate for problem drinking was low. The findings indicate the need for an active consultation service to address the specific issue of harmful drinking among patients admitted in general hospitals.
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spelling pubmed-29583462011-03-15 A STUDY OF ALCOHOL RELATED PHYSICAL DISEASES IN GENERAL HOSPITAL PATIENTS Srinivasan, K. Augustine, Mary Kutty Indian J Psychiatry Original Article We studied the prevalence of harmful use of alcohol and alcohol related diseases in newly admitted patients in a general hospital. Two hundred and ninety seven patients were screened for alcohol use with Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT). Sixty one subjects (21%) had harmful pattern of alcohol consumption. Of these twenty eight patients (9.4%) had alcohol-related diseases, while in 33 patients (11.1%) we did not find any association between alcohol use and hospital diagnoses. Physicians′ referral rate for problem drinking was low. The findings indicate the need for an active consultation service to address the specific issue of harmful drinking among patients admitted in general hospitals. Medknow Publications 2000 /pmc/articles/PMC2958346/ /pubmed/21407951 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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A STUDY OF ALCOHOL RELATED PHYSICAL DISEASES IN GENERAL HOSPITAL PATIENTS
title A STUDY OF ALCOHOL RELATED PHYSICAL DISEASES IN GENERAL HOSPITAL PATIENTS
title_full A STUDY OF ALCOHOL RELATED PHYSICAL DISEASES IN GENERAL HOSPITAL PATIENTS
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title_short A STUDY OF ALCOHOL RELATED PHYSICAL DISEASES IN GENERAL HOSPITAL PATIENTS
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