Using AUDIT to classify patients into Australian Alcohol Guideline categories

Fawcett, Julia E; Shakeshaft, Anthony P; Harris, Mark F; Wodak, Alex; Mattick, Richard P; Richmond, Robyn L

doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2004.tb06108.x

Topics

Substance‐related disorders

Statistics, epidemiology and research design

Julia E Fawcett,* Anthony P Shakeshaft,† Mark F Harris,‡ Alex Wodak,§ Richard P Mattick,¶ Robyn L Richmond**

2 National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052
4 School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
5 Alcohol and Drug Service, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, NSW.

Correspondence: A.Shakeshaft@unsw.edu.au

Acknowledgements:

Thanks to receptionists and GPs in the participating practice in western Sydney, and Hugh Garsden at the Centre for Health Informatics (UNSW) for programming.

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