title: Eight-year outcome of problem drinking among medical inpatients.
abstract: Male medical inpatients rated alcoholic on the Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test in 1982 were compared with non-alcoholic controls admitted to medical wards in the same year. By 1990 the alcoholic subjects had moderated their drinking, although peak consumption at follow-up was twice that of controls. A similar number of health and social disabilities occurred during the follow-up period among alcoholics and controls. Untraced and dead alcoholics had scored highly on MAST and the Severity of Alcohol Dependence Questionnaire in 1982.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, St. James's Hospital and Trinity College, Dublin, Republic of Ireland.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Farragher
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Webb
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D015331:Cohort Studies; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007494:Ireland / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012017:Referral and Consultation / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012803:Sick Role