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01-12-2015 | Oral presentation
Optimizing alcohol screening according to DSM-5 severity by adaptive testing using the AUDIT
Authors:
Gallus Bischof, Anja Bischof, Christian Meyer, Hans-Juergen Rumpf
Published in:
Addiction Science & Clinical Practice
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Special Issue 2/2015
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Excerpt
Due to unsatisfactory results of alcohol-related SBI in patients with severe Alcohol Use Disorders (AUDs), many studies aim to exclude severe cases by defining a cut-off in the upper range of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test AUDIT. However, research focusing on optimal cut-offs is still insufficient. In addition, cut-off values of the AUDIT for DSM-5 substance use disorder criteria have not been analysed so far. …