Citation

Magruder-Habib K, Fraker GG, Peterson CL. J. Stud. Alcohol 1983; 44(5): 872-884.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1983, Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

6645547

Abstract

Two independent assessments of alcoholism--clinicians' judgments and the Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test (MAST)--were in agreement only 77.0% of the time, with a Kappa value of .44. Because of its administrative efficiency and greater uniformity and objectivity, the MAST was judged as being preferable to clinicians' judgments in situations in which only one method is needed.

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