Alcoholism

Studies from S. Pombo et al provide new data on alcoholism

Published in Hospital Law Weekly, February 12th, 2009

According to recent research from Lisbon, Portugal, "This detailed cross-sectional analysis, obtained from a sample of alcohol-dependent patients, attempts to compare multiple methods that have been created to classify or subtype alcoholics. The sample comprised 318 alcohol-dependent patients recruited from the alcoholism unit (NETER) of the Psychiatric Service of Santa Maria University Hospital in Lisbon (Portugal)."

"All subjects were evaluated during the outpatient therapeutical programme for operationalized criteria, reported by each alcoholism typology. Regarding concordance agreement (kappa values) for the three type I/II classifications, von Knorring versus...

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Source: Hospital Law Weekly (2009-02-12)

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