'When you were drinking' vs. 'in the past 12 months': The impact of using different time frames in clinical and general populations

Addiction

Volumn 94, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 731-736

  Weisner, Constance ^a,b   Kaskutas, Lee Ann ^a,b   Hilton, Michael E ^c   Barile, Amelia L ^a  

^a ALCOHOL RESEARCH GROUP   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Natl Inst on Alcohol Abuse and A   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; TIME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032918689     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1360-0443.1999.94573111.x     Document Type: Article

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