A STUDY OF PROBLEM DRINKERS IN A GENERAL HOSPITAL

349 new admissions in the wards of Medicine, General Surgery & Orthopedics in a general hospital were screened with MAST & AUDIT for problem use of alcohol. Problem drinking was present in 14.6% of the inpatients. The severity and the need for additional treatment were measured with Addictio...

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Autores principales: Babu, R. Sateesh, Sengupta, S.N.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1997
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2967075/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21584037
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description 349 new admissions in the wards of Medicine, General Surgery & Orthopedics in a general hospital were screened with MAST & AUDIT for problem use of alcohol. Problem drinking was present in 14.6% of the inpatients. The severity and the need for additional treatment were measured with Addiction Severity Index (ASI). Majority of the patients had problems in more than one ar?a. Nevertheless, only one fourth of the patients were referred for psychiatric treatment. The findings indicate the need to develop services towards the recognition and referrals of the problem drinkers in general hospitals
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spelling pubmed-29670752011-05-16 A STUDY OF PROBLEM DRINKERS IN A GENERAL HOSPITAL Babu, R. Sateesh Sengupta, S.N. Indian J Psychiatry Original Article 349 new admissions in the wards of Medicine, General Surgery & Orthopedics in a general hospital were screened with MAST & AUDIT for problem use of alcohol. Problem drinking was present in 14.6% of the inpatients. The severity and the need for additional treatment were measured with Addiction Severity Index (ASI). Majority of the patients had problems in more than one ar?a. Nevertheless, only one fourth of the patients were referred for psychiatric treatment. The findings indicate the need to develop services towards the recognition and referrals of the problem drinkers in general hospitals Medknow Publications 1997 /pmc/articles/PMC2967075/ /pubmed/21584037 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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