Alcohol
Volume 27, Issue 2 , Pages 77-82 , June 2002

Screening of binge drinking among patients on an emergency surgical ward

  • Lars Forsberg

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Section of Clinical Alcohol and Drug Addiction Research, Magnus Huss, Karolinska Institutet, SE-171 76 Stockholm, Sweden
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +46-8-517 747 35; fax: +46-8-517 766 15.(L. Forsberg). Editor: S. Borg
    • ,
  • Jan Halldin

      Affiliations

    • Department of Public Health Sciences, Division of Social Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, 171 76 Stockholm, Sweden
    • ,
  • Sören Ekman

      Affiliations

    • Surgical Clinic, Danderyd's Hospital, 182 88 Danderyd, Sweden
    • ,
  • Sten Rönnberg

      Affiliations

    • Department of Social Work at Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden

Received 12 July 2001 ,Revised 8 January 2002 ,Accepted 8 January 2002.

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