title: [Detection of alcoholic patients using the systematic CAGE autoquestionnaire. In out patients].
abstract: A French adaptation of the CAGE questionnaire was used as a self-administered test in 200 outpatients (heart clinic 100, gastroenterology clinic 100) from a French University Hospital. People with two positive items or more were regarded as potential "alcoholics", i.e. indulging in excessive alcohol consumption without being alcohol-dependent. With a 9.5 per cent prevalence of "alcoholics", 95.5 per cent of out-patients were correctly classified.
authors.affiliation: Service de traitement ambulatoire des malades alcooliques (STAMA), Hôpital Beaujon, Clichy.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Rueff
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Crnac
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Darne
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010045:Outpatients; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
vernacular_title: Dépistage de malades "alcooliques" par l'autoquestionnaire systématique DETA. Parmi des consultants hospitaliers.