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  • Title: [Ten questions about alcohol as identifier of addiction problems. Psychometric tests at an emergency psychiatric department].
    Author: Bergman H, Källmén H, Rydberg U, Sandahl C.
    Journal: Lakartidningen; 1998 Oct 21; 95(43):4731-5. PubMed ID: 9821761.
    Abstract:
    It is important to develop and evaluate methods of identifying alcohol dependent patients and patients at risk of alcohol problems. The World Health Organisation recommends a 10-item questionnaire, AUDIT (Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test), which assesses hazardous alcohol use, dependence symptoms, and harmful alcohol use. The article describes a Swedish version of AUDIT that has been psychometrically tested on a sample of patients admitted to a psychiatric emergency ward. Both internal consistency, reliability and validity were found to be satisfactory in terms of sensitivity and specificity in predicting DSM alcoholism diagnoses.
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