Alcohol-Related Disorders - Diagnosis
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Toward national estimates of alcohol use disorders among drivers: results from the National Roadside Survey Pilot Program.

29 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: To determine whether drivers contacted at the roadside can be screened for alcohol use disorders (AUDs). Secondarily, to produce preliminary estimates of AUDs among drivers and estimate the relationship between AUD status and BAC measured ... Read more...

Association between number of deployments to Iraq and mental health screening outcomes in US Army soldiers.

9 Aug 2009 OBJECTIVE: High rates of mental health concerns have been documented in US Army soldiers deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. The goal of this study was to compare the postdeployment mental health screening results of US Army soldiers ... Read more...

Alcohol screening and brief intervention in a college student health center: a randomized controlled trial.

29 Jun 2009 OBJECTIVE: This study tested the effectiveness of brief primary care provider interventions delivered in a college student health center to a sample of college students who screened positive for high-risk drinking. METHOD: Between November 2005 and ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Alcohol-Related Disorders - Diagnosis'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Toward national estimates of alcohol use disorders among drivers: results from the National Roadside Survey Pilot Program. 29 Sep 2009
• [Talking about alcohol. "A guidebook to the art of communication at a spiritual level"] 30 Aug 2009
• Association between number of deployments to Iraq and mental health screening outcomes in US Army soldiers. 9 Aug 2009
• Alcohol screening and brief intervention in a college student health center: a randomized controlled trial. 29 Jun 2009
• Screening for high-risk drinking in a college student health center: characterizing students based on quantity, frequency, and harms. 29 Jun 2009
• Three-year follow-up of syndromal antisocial behavior in adults: results from the wave 2 National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions. 14 Jun 2009
• Urinary ethyl glucuronide (EtG) and ethyl sulphate (EtS) assessment: valuable tools to improve verification of abstention in alcohol-dependent patients during in-patient treatment and at follow-ups. 30 May 2009
• Psychometric approaches for developing commensurate measures across independent studies: traditional and new models. 30 May 2009
• Process evaluation of serial screening criteria to identify injured patients that benefit from brief intervention: practical implications. 30 May 2009
• Differences between homicide and filicide offenders; results of a nationwide register-based case-control study. 27 May 2009
• The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) as a screening instrument for adolescents. 4 May 2009
• An evaluation of the full level of response to alcohol model of heavy drinking and problems in COGA offspring. 29 Apr 2009
• Ethyl glucuronide in hair. A sensitive and specific marker of chronic heavy drinking. 7 Apr 2009
• Prevalence of alcohol use disorders in schizophrenia--a systematic review and meta-analysis. Apr 2009
• Poor sleep quality and alcohol use problems among elderly Taiwanese aboriginal women. 25 Mar 2009
• Challenges in reporting meta-analyses of diagnostic accuracy studies. 15 Mar 2009
• Reliability and validity of the alcohol short index of problems and a newly constructed drug short index of problems. 27 Feb 2009
• Prevalence and correlates of illicit and non-medical use of psychotropic drugs in Japan: findings from the World Mental Health Japan Survey 2002-2004. Feb 2009
• Problem drinking among patients attending primary healthcare units in Kampala, Uganda. 30 Jan 2009
• Performance monitoring of substance use disorder interventions in the Veterans Health Administration. 30 Dec 2008

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Technical information about 'Alcohol-Related Disorders'

Definition: Disorders related to or resulting from abuse or mis-use of alcohol.

Descriptor UI: D019973

Alternative terms: Alcohol-Related Disorders; Alcohol Related Disorders; Alcohol-Related Disorder; Disorder, Alcohol-Related; Disorders, Alcohol-Related;

Related Mesh Headings: Psychoses, Alcoholic;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: C21.739.100; F03.900.100;

History Note: 98