Abstract
In the general hospital setting, alcohol-use disorders very commonly remain undetected.The authors hypothesized that including a consultation-liaison (C-L) psychiatrist in primary-care rounds would improve detection rates of alcohol-use-disorders.Patients (N=165) on two medical wards were screened by means of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test. Diagnoses were confirmed with the International Diagnostic Checklists and compared with physicians' detection rates. C-L intervention included demonstrations of standardized diagnostic procedures in order to change primary-care physicians' behavior.Primary-care-physicians' detection rates of alcohol-use disorders increased significantly after implementation of the C-L service, whereas no significant differences were observed on the control ward.Tentative data thus underscore the efficacy of C-L psychiatry for detection and intervention in alcohol-use disorders.
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