The Nigerian postgraduate medical journal
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Niger Postgrad Med J · Jun 2005
Alcohol use and abuse among medical and surgical in-patients in a general hospital.
Non-recognition of alcohol problems in medical and surgical patients may have adverse consequences. This may be minimised by having a high index of suspicion and the use of screening instruments. ⋯ Detailed inquiry about alcohol use, looking for indices of cigarette smoking and routine use of screening instruments should assist in discovering many patients with alcohol abuse who probably would have denied having the problem.