By relying on hunches rather than posing a few screening questions, primary care clinicians may be missing three quarters of the alcohol problems in their patients, a newly released analysis shows. "It's often off the radar - people come in for hypertension and are not asked how much they drink," said study co-author Barbara J. Turner, M.D., M.S.Ed., M.A., M.A.C.P., of UT Medicine San Antonio. Primary care offices typically don't have good systems to administer questionnaires to screen for certain problems, including alcohol consumption, she noted...
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