General practitioners' strategies to identify alcohol problems: A focus group study

Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 64-69

  Lid, Torgeir Gilje ^a,b,c   Malterud, Kirsti ^a,b  

^a Research Unit for General Practice   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c STAVANGER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Alcohol abuse; alcohol related disorders; focus groups; general practice; preventive medicine; qualitative research

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALCOHOL-RELATED DISORDERS; ALCOHOLISM; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861745372     PISSN: 02813432     EISSN: 15027724     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02813432.2012.679229     Document Type: Article

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