Psychiatry

AUDIT-C

Three-item alcohol-use screen drawn from the full AUDIT. Validated to identify hazardous drinking, alcohol-use disorders, and active alcohol abuse or dependence.

Sex

1. How often do you have a drink containing alcohol?

2. How many standard drinks containing alcohol do you have on a typical day when drinking?

3. How often do you have six or more drinks on one occasion?

Source

Bush K, Kivlahan DR, McDonell MB, Fihn SD, Bradley KA. The AUDIT alcohol consumption questions (AUDIT-C): an effective brief screening test for problem drinking. Archives of Internal Medicine 1998.

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