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Saturday, August 8, 2009

Primary Care Validation of a Single-Question Alcohol Screening Test
J Gen Intern Med 24(7):783–788

To validate, in primary care, a single-item screening test for unhealthy alcohol use recommended by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA).

The single screening question recommended by the NIAAA accurately identified unhealthy alcohol use in this sample of primary care patients. These findings support the use of this brief screen in primary care.

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