Threshold and Optimal Cut-Points for Alcohol Use Disorders Among Patients in the Emergency Department

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1270-1276

  Borges, Guilherme ^a   Cherpitel, Cheryl J ^b   Ye, Yu ^b   Bond, Jason ^b   Cremonte, Mariana ^c   Moskalewicz, Jacek ^d   Swiatkiewicz, Grazyna ^d  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PSIQUIATRÍA RAMÓN DE LA FUENTE MUÑIZ   (Mexico)

^b ALCOHOL RESEARCH GROUP   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

^d INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY AND NEUROLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Alcohol Use Disorder; Dimensional; DSM IV; Ethnicity; IRT Analysis

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL ABUSE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL USE DISORDER; ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALCOHOLISM; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 79959196634     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: 15300277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2011.01462.x     Document Type: Article

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