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Alcohol screening for older adults in an acute general hospital: FAST v. MAST-G assessments

Aims and method Documented prevalence of alcohol misuse among older adult patients at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital is significantly lower than the national prevalence. We aimed to evaluate our alcohol misuse screening protocol for older adults to identify possible shortcomings. Hospital protocol i...

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Autores principales: Knightly, Rachel, Tadros, George, Sharma, Juhi, Duffield, Peter, Carnall, Emma, Fisher, Jacqui, Salman, Shaza
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Royal College of Psychiatrists 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4817649/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27087989
http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/pb.bp.114.049734