Screening questionnaires in the detection of hazardous alcohol consumption in the general hospital: Direct or disguised assessment?

Journal of Studies on Alcohol

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 698-703

  Rumpf, Hans Jürgen ^a   Hapke, Ulfert ^a   Erfurth, Andreas ^a,b   John, Ulrich ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASS SCREENING; RATING SCALE;

EID: 0031755172     PISSN: 0096882X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15288/jsa.1998.59.698     Document Type: Article

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