title: Assessment of alcoholic patients: advances and future challenges.
abstract: Noteworthy advances have been made in methods of assessing patients suffering alcohol problems. More than one hundred measures are now available to assist clinicians and researchers in screening for such problems, diagnosing them, and developing treatment plans individualized according to relevant patient characteristics. This chapter reviews progress in assessment supporting each of these activities and suggests directions for future research. It concludes by identifying a series of research issues that cut across multiple domains of alcohol assessment.
authors.affiliation: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA.
authors.forename: John P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Allen
mesh_terms: D000437:Alcoholism / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation; D015415:Biomarkers / Q000097:blood; D006801:Humans; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D010552:Personality Assessment
chemical_list: D015415:Biomarkers