The results indicate that the criteria used for the diagnosis of alcoholism select patients who show a satisfactory degree of diagnostic consistency over many years. Furthermore, the diagnostic criteria select cases associated with a significant increase in the familial risk of alcoholism. Alcoholism ...
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-IV-T)R requires three of the following traits to be present for a diagnosis of alcohol dependence: tolerance, meaning that a person becomes accustomed to consuming alcohol and must increase the amount in...
alcoholismdiagnosisdrug abuseforensic sciencesalivatoxicologySampling of saliva is advantageous, since non-invasive, stress free, easy and frequent collections ... R Balwant,P Bhagwat,D Sharma - 《Advances in Medical & Dental Sciences》 被引量: 6发表: 2008年 Dermal vascular IgA deposits in IgA ...
Diagnosis of alcoholism in a simulated patient encounter by primary care physicians. Although early detection and treatment of alcoholism have been shown to be efficacious, it is widely accepted that primary care physicians often fail to di... RL Brown,WB Carter,MJ Gordon - 《Journal of Family...
Social settings conducive to alcoholism; a sociological approach to a medical problem The sociological approach to alcoholism could be applied to such matters as diagnosis, epidemiology, rehabilitation, prevention, medical education, and the... SD Bacon - 《Journal of the American Medical Association...
DIAGNOSIS Alcoholism is diagnosed clinically. Although some alcoholics have many abnormal laboratory findings, none of these is definitively diagnostic. In severe hepatic disease, blood urea nitrogen is elevated, and serum glucose levels are decreased. Elevated liver function studies may indicate liver da...
alcohol withdrawal syndrome Acronyms A group of symptoms and signs that develop within 6–24 hours of taking the last drink in a person suffering fromALCOHOLISM. They include agitation, anxiety, tremors, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, sweating, insomnia, disorientation, grand mal seizures and...
Edwards, a postdoctoral fellow at the Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University. "Obviously, all of the symptoms are, at some level, predictive of the disorder; but that some are more useful than others at identifying a reliable diagnosis is ...
While there are many reasons physicians are not performing screening and brief intervention, such as stigma or lack of skill, there may be few local referral resources for patients with SU, once identified. At minimum, the basic clinical skills of screening, assessment, diagnosis, negotiating ...
For the treatment to be effective, long-term cooperation between the patient, doctor, and psychotherapist is required. We should not forget about the diagnosis and treatment of the underlying disease, for which delusions of jealousy can appear as a mask or as its main symptom. The use of ...