Markers for patients with alcohol problems in an outpatient general medicine clinic

Substance Abuse

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 141-147

  Harry Isaacson, J ^a   Nielsen, Craig ^b   Urbanic, Richard ^b   Challgren, Eric ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Alcohol; AUDIT; Hypertension; Outpatient; Screening

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; HABIT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTERNAL MEDICINE; OUTPATIENT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 0345466554     PISSN: 08897077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021320016680     Document Type: Article

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