COMPARISON OF QUESTIONNAIRES AND LABORATORY TESTS IN THE DETECTION OF EXCESSIVE DRINKERS AND ALCHOLICS

225 alcoholics in village and 149 alcoholics in a mental hospital outpatients were administered screening questionnaires for alcoholics status (MAST) dependence (SADD), and consumption data (Q.F. Index). All of them underwent GGT and MCV estimation within 48 hours of last drinking. Comparison of lab...

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Autores principales: Mathrubootham, N., Hariharan, G., Ramakrishnan, A.N., Muthukrishanan, V.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1999
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2962281/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21455352
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author Mathrubootham, N.
Hariharan, G.
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description 225 alcoholics in village and 149 alcoholics in a mental hospital outpatients were administered screening questionnaires for alcoholics status (MAST) dependence (SADD), and consumption data (Q.F. Index). All of them underwent GGT and MCV estimation within 48 hours of last drinking. Comparison of laboratory test with the questionnaires revealed that questionnaires were more useful in community and the laboratory test in hospital where they could also be used in diagnosing monitoring and follow-up assessment of patients.
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spelling pubmed-29622812011-03-31 COMPARISON OF QUESTIONNAIRES AND LABORATORY TESTS IN THE DETECTION OF EXCESSIVE DRINKERS AND ALCHOLICS Mathrubootham, N. Hariharan, G. Ramakrishnan, A.N. Muthukrishanan, V. Indian J Psychiatry Original Article 225 alcoholics in village and 149 alcoholics in a mental hospital outpatients were administered screening questionnaires for alcoholics status (MAST) dependence (SADD), and consumption data (Q.F. Index). All of them underwent GGT and MCV estimation within 48 hours of last drinking. Comparison of laboratory test with the questionnaires revealed that questionnaires were more useful in community and the laboratory test in hospital where they could also be used in diagnosing monitoring and follow-up assessment of patients. Medknow Publications 1999 /pmc/articles/PMC2962281/ /pubmed/21455352 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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Ramakrishnan, A.N.
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COMPARISON OF QUESTIONNAIRES AND LABORATORY TESTS IN THE DETECTION OF EXCESSIVE DRINKERS AND ALCHOLICS
title COMPARISON OF QUESTIONNAIRES AND LABORATORY TESTS IN THE DETECTION OF EXCESSIVE DRINKERS AND ALCHOLICS
title_full COMPARISON OF QUESTIONNAIRES AND LABORATORY TESTS IN THE DETECTION OF EXCESSIVE DRINKERS AND ALCHOLICS
title_fullStr COMPARISON OF QUESTIONNAIRES AND LABORATORY TESTS IN THE DETECTION OF EXCESSIVE DRINKERS AND ALCHOLICS
title_full_unstemmed COMPARISON OF QUESTIONNAIRES AND LABORATORY TESTS IN THE DETECTION OF EXCESSIVE DRINKERS AND ALCHOLICS
title_short COMPARISON OF QUESTIONNAIRES AND LABORATORY TESTS IN THE DETECTION OF EXCESSIVE DRINKERS AND ALCHOLICS
title_sort comparison of questionnaires and laboratory tests in the detection of excessive drinkers and alcholics
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2962281/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21455352
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