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| Screening for alcohol misuse in older people | | Author(s) | Steven Luttrell, Vivienne Watkin, Gill Livingston |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 12, no 12, December 1997 |
| Pages | pp 1151-1154 |
| Keywords | Alcoholism ; Screening ; In-patients ; United Kingdom. |
| Annotation | The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of three different screening instruments in the detection of alcohol dependence or excessive alcohol intake in older in-patients in the UK. The instruments studied were: the CAGE, the Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test - Geriatric Version (MAST-G), and the test for mean corpuscular volume (MCV). The results confirmed previous UK studies which indicate that the CAGE and an abnormally high MCV are poor screening instruments for alcohol misuse in older patients, and that the MAST-G is an insensitive screening instrument. A new two-step instrument with five questions in total was suggested, which requires further validation. |
| Accession Number | CPA-980112403 A |
| Classmark | ETA: 3V: LF7: 8 |
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