@article{ref1,
title="Comparison between different methods of detecting patients with excessive consumption of alcohol",
journal="Acta medica Scandinavica",
year="1988",
author="Persson, J. and Magnusson, P. H.",
volume="223",
number="2",
pages="101-109",
abstract="A study of excessive alcohol consumption was carried out on 2,114 adult somatic outpatients. All patients were evaluated by the following methods: Blood-chemical tests (serum gamma-glutamyltransferase (S-GT), serum aspartate aminotransferase (S-ASAT) and ethanol), patient's and doctor's questionnaires, and analysis of data from psychiatric records, social welfare registers and alcohol ambulatory services. Records from psychiatric clinics detected 48% of the patients. Forty per cent of the alcohol patients had S-GT levels greater than 0.9 mu kat/l. S-ASAT and blood ethanol levels were of little informative value. The doctors recognized excessive consumption (greater than 280 g of ethanol/week). The combination of S-GT and questionnaires to patients and doctors detected 63% of the alcohol patients. Both in epidemiological studies and in clinical practice it seems appropriate to use combinations of different methods to detect patients with underlying alcohol problems.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0001-6101",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}