Alcohol Intake Assessment: The Sober Facts
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Alcohol intake assessment: the sober facts.
Recent recommendations in regard to the level of alcohol intake have mainly been based on epidemiologic studies which relied on self-reported amounts of alcohol consumed. Therefore, it is important to be aware of the quality of self-reported measures of alcohol intake. Alcohol intake assessment methods were reviewed with respect to their capacity to rank individuals according to alcohol intake ...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Epidemiology
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0002-9262,1476-6256
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a009909