Documentation of alcohol use in hospital records of newly diagnosed cancer patients: A population-based study

American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 403-409

  Polednak, Anthony P ^a  

^a CDC   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol screening; Cancer; Gamma glutamyl transpeptidase (GGT); Hospital; Inpatients; Mean corpuscular volume (MCV)

Indexed keywords

GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER PATIENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL RECORD; POPULATION RESEARCH; SCREENING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALCOHOL-RELATED DISORDERS; COMORBIDITY; CONNECTICUT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DOCUMENTATION; ERYTHROCYTE INDICES; FEMALE; GAMMA-GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT ADMISSION;

EID: 34447125121     PISSN: 00952990     EISSN: 10979891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00952990701315236     Document Type: Article

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