@article{ref1,
title="Screening of binge drinking among patients on an emergency surgical ward",
journal="Alcohol",
year="2002",
author="Forsberg, Lars and Halldin, Jan and Ekman, Soren and Rönnberg, Sten",
volume="27",
number="2",
pages="77-82",
abstract="In a sample of 149 emergency surgical patients, binge drinking was assessed through interviews. Sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predictive values were calculated for three questionnaires-the Malma modification of brief MAST (Mm-MAST), CAGE, and the Trauma Scale-and two biological markers-carbohydrate-deficient transferrin (CDT) and gamma-glutamyltransferase (GGT). Binge drinking was reported by 42% of male patients, aged 16-29 years; 66% of female patients, aged 16-29 years; 27% of male patients, aged 30-73 years; and 16% of female patients, aged 30-73 years. All alcohol biomarkers had low sensitivity to binge drinking among women. Mm-MAST alone and CAGE and CDT combined were sensitive to identifying binge drinking among men aged 30-73 years. The three questionnaires combined had a sensitivity of 0.82 to binge drinking among men aged 16-29 years.   <p></p>  <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0741-8329",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}