caa a22 4500 469048646 CHVBK 20180323132824.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19921201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF01323995 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF01323995 The detection of alcohol problems in a primary care clinic [Elektronische Daten] [Mark Olfson, Robert Braham] The CAGE is a four item questionnaire which is used to help clinicians identify alcohol problems. Charts of 433 primary care patients who were given a medical health form containing the CAGE questions (experimental patients) were compared with charts of 451 patients given a similar form that did not contain the CAGE questions (control patients). Alcohol problems were detected more frequently in the experimental patients (10.6%) than in the control patients (6.7%) (p<0.05). This difference in detection tended to be most evident for persons with milder alcohol problems (problem drinking) as opposed to more well developed alcohol abuse. Experimental patients (3.7%) also tended to be more likely than control patients (2.9%) to receive active alcohol treatment during their initial medical visit. Medical health screening forms which include the CAGE questions may promote the identification of alcohol problems in primary care. Human Sciences Press, Inc., 1992 Olfson Mark Department of Psychiatry, Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic, Cornell University Medical Center, 525 East 68th Street, 10021, New York, NY aut Braham Robert aut Journal of Community Health Kluwer Academic Publishers-Human Sciences Press 17/6(1992-12-01), 323-331 0094-5145 17:6<323 1992 17 10900 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01323995 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01323995 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Olfson Mark Department of Psychiatry, Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic, Cornell University Medical Center, 525 East 68th Street, 10021, New York, NY aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Braham Robert aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Community Health Kluwer Academic Publishers-Human Sciences Press 17/6(1992-12-01), 323-331 0094-5145 17:6<323 1992 17 10900 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer