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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Forsberg, Lars
• Halldin, Jan
• Ekman, Sören
• Rönnberg, Sten

Titel

Screening of binge drinking among patients on an emergency surgical ward

Ist Teil von

• Alcohol (Fayetteville, N.Y.), 2002-06, Vol.27 (2), p.77-82

Ort / Verlag

New York, NY: Elsevier Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2002

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Quelle

Access via ScienceDirect (Elsevier)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In a sample of 149 emergency surgical patients, binge drinking was assessed through interviews. Sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predictive values were calculated for three questionnaires—the Malmö modification of brief MAST (Mm-MAST), CAGE, and the Trauma Scale—and two biological markers—carbohydrate-deficient transferrin (CDT) and gamma-glutamyltransferase (GGT). Binge drinking was reported by 42% of male patients, aged 16–29 years; 66% of female patients, aged 16–29 years; 27% of male patients, aged 30–73 years; and 16% of female patients, aged 30–73 years. All alcohol biomarkers had low sensitivity to binge drinking among women. Mm-MAST alone and CAGE and CDT combined were sensitive to identifying binge drinking among men aged 30–73 years. The three questionnaires combined had a sensitivity of 0.82 to binge drinking among men aged 16–29 years.