Practical Assessment of Alcohol Use Disorder in Routine Primary Care: Performance of an Alcohol Symptom Checklist.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is highly prevalent but underrecognized and undertreated in primary care settings. Alcohol Symptom Checklists can engage patients and providers in discussions of AUD-related care. However, the performance of Alcohol Symptom Checklists when they are used in routine care and documented in electronic health records (EHRs) remains unevaluated.

Objective

To evaluate the psychometric performance of an Alcohol Symptom Checklist in routine primary care.

Design

Cross-sectional study using item response theory (IRT) and differential item functioning analyses of measurement consistency across age, sex, race, and ethnicity.

Patients

Patients seen in primary care in the Kaiser Permanente Washington Healthcare System who reported high-ri

SUBMITTER: Hallgren KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9198160 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature