The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test for Consumption (AUDIT-C) is more useful than pre-existing laboratory tests for predicting hazardous drinking: a cross-sectional study

• Main Authors: Hideki Fujii (Author), Naoki Nishimoto (Author), Seiko Yamaguchi (Author), Osamu Kurai (Author), Masato Miyano (Author), Wataru Ueda (Author), Hiroko Oba (Author), Tetsuya Aoki (Author), Norifumi Kawada (Author), Kiyotaka Okawa (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2016-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background It is important to screen for alcohol consumption and drinking customs in a standardized manner. The aim of this study was 1) to investigate whether the AUDIT score is useful for predicting hazardous drinking using optimal cutoff scores and 2) to use multivariate analysis to eval...