SynthesisJournal of general internal medicine2009
Methodological challenges and limitations of research on alcohol consumption and effect on common clinical conditions: evidence from six systematic reviews.
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- Alcohol and Mortality: Combining Self-Reported (AUDIT-C) and Biomarker Detected (PEth) Alcohol Measures Among HIV Infected and Uninfected.Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) · 2018Article
- In the Clinic. Alcohol Use.Annals of internal medicine · 2016Review
- Negotiating substance use stigma: the role of cultural health capital in provider-patient interactions.Sociology of health & illness · 2016Article
- Integrating information on substance use disorders into electronic health record systems.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2012Article
- Gaps in addressing problem drinking: overcoming primary care and alcohol treatment deficiencies.Current psychiatry reports · 2009Review
- Alcohol and sleep problems in primary care patients: a report from the AAFP National Research Network.Annals of family medicineArticle
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Abstract
backgroundDespite the high prevalence of alcohol consumption in the US, 'mainstream' physicians generally consider it to be peripheral to most patient care. This may be due in part to a dearth of rigorous research on alcohol's effect on common diseases.
methodsTo evaluate this issue, we examined six systematic reviews, four of which were conducted as part of a research initiative supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Program of Research to Integrate Substance Use Information into Mainstream Healthcare (PRISM). PRISM aimed to assimilate and improve the evidence on the medical impact of alcohol (and other drugs of abuse) on common chronic conditions.
resultsFrom these reviews, we summarize the methodological limitations of research on alcohol's impact on development and/or clinical course of depression, hypertension, diabetes, bone disease, dementia, and sexually transmitted diseases. The studies included in these reviews were largely fair to good quality, and few were in primary care settings. Syntheses were hampered by the myriad of definitions of alcohol consumption from any/none to seven levels and a plethora of types of alcohol use disorders.
conclusionWe recommend more high-quality observational and experimental studies in primary care settings as well as a more standard approach to quantifying alcohol use and to defining alcohol use disorders.
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