The "WAM" score: Sensitivity and specificity of a user friendly biological screening test for alcohol problems in trauma patients

Addiction

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 255-262

  Nilssen, Odd ^a,b   Ries, Richard ^a   Rivara, Fredrick P ^c   Gurney, James G ^d   Jurkovich, Gregory J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE;

ADULT; ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCREENING TEST;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOLISM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ERYTHROCYTE INDICES; ETHANOL; FEMALE; GAMMA-GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOMETRICS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WASHINGTON; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0030063122     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.1996.tb03186.x     Document Type: Article

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