Do general practitioners record alcohol abuse in the electronic medical records? A comparison of survey and medical record data.

CONCLUSIONS: This study found that 11.1% of the total patient sample reported an alcohol use disorder, of which a strikingly low number of patients were recorded as such by their GP. It is likely that low recognition due to barriers related to alcohol screening as well as registration avoidance due to the stigma around alcohol abuse, play a role in low registration. PMID: 29301406 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Current Medical Research and Opinion - Category: Research Tags: Curr Med Res Opin Source Type: research