TY  - JOUR
T1  - ALcoholism in hospitalized patients in switzerland
AU  - Yersin B, Paccaud F
Y1  - 1989/08/11
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1989.03430060066016
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 772
EP  - 772
VL  - 262
IS  - 6
N2  - To the Editor.— 
    The recent article by Moore et al1 emphasizes perfectly the urgent need for detection and treatment of alcoholism in hospitalized patients. Besides providing other important epidemiologic data, it demonstrates the underdetection of alcoholism by hospital physicians. On the other hand, it shows that physician intervention, whatever it was, had at least a short-term impact on the patient's behavior regarding alcohol consumption. These observations are of particular importance because alcoholism is frequent in populations of hospitalized patients and because physicians usually are undertrained and also reluctant to spend efforts for detection and initiation of treatment for alcoholism.Since the French part of Switzerland is a region of high alcohol consumption, we studied prospectively the applicability and frequency of positivity of the French translation of the Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test (MAST) in patients from the departments of internal medicine of two hospitals in this country. We also recorded
SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1989.03430060066016
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1989.03430060066016
ER  -