Diagnostic accuracy of a two-item Drug Abuse Screening Test (DAST-2)

Addictive Behaviors

Volumn 74, Issue , 2017, Pages 112-117

  Tiet, Quyen Q ^a,b,c   Leyva, Yani E ^a   Moos, Rudolf H ^a,b   Smith, Brandy ^a  

^a VA PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c ALLIANT INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Drug use disorder; Primary care; Screening test; Sensitivity and specificity; Validation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG SCREENING; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; RACE; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL DETECTION; TWO ITEM DRUG ABUSE SCREENING TEST; CALIFORNIA; DRUG DEPENDENCE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; VETERAN;

CALIFORNIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBSTANCE ABUSE DETECTION; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; VETERANS;

EID: 85020404411     PISSN: 03064603     EISSN: 18736327     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2017.06.008     Document Type: Article

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