ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - A technology company in Roanoke hopes to change the way doctors screen for alcohol abuse. BEAM Diagnostics Inc. said 29% of Americans are affected by Alcohol Use Disorder and ...

Background General practitioner (GP) records are increasingly being used as sources of information on potential confounders such as smoking use and alcohol intake in epidemiological studies. The aim ...

A new draft quality standard, which sets out priority areas for quality improvement for the care of adults with alcohol-use disorders, includes a statement about accurately recording alcohol use, and ...

To ensure those who need help with alcohol-related problems are not missed, NICE is urging professionals to gather information on people's alcohol drinking habits correctly. As the last orders bell ...

To help address this NICE is recommending that people being asked about how much and how often they drink alcohol should have the information added to a validated questionnaire to identify if they ...

People with drinking problems could be “slipping through the net” due to health workers not recording their drinking habits properly, a national health body has warned. The National Institute for ...

We are seeing researchers give heavy drinkers their favorite alcohol drinks in a lab that looks like a cozy local bar, only ...

A draft NICE quality standard asks GPs to formalise recording of patients’ alcohol use so they they do not miss out on interventions. The institute is asking service providers to ensure that ‘systems ...