How general practitioners view alcohol use. Clearing up the confusion

Can Fam Physician. 1994 Sep:40:1570-9.

Abstract

This paper reviews the findings of qualitative and quantitative research into family physicians' attitudes, beliefs, and experience with patients with alcohol problems. The implications of the findings are discussed in the context of the need for educational programs to improve physicians' work with these patients.

Publication types

  • Meta-Analysis

MeSH terms

  • Alcohol Drinking / prevention & control
  • Alcohol Drinking / psychology
  • Alcohol Drinking / therapy
  • Alcoholic Intoxication / diagnosis
  • Alcoholic Intoxication / prevention & control
  • Alcoholic Intoxication / psychology
  • Alcoholic Intoxication / therapy
  • Alcoholism / diagnosis
  • Alcoholism / prevention & control
  • Alcoholism / psychology*
  • Alcoholism / therapy
  • Attitude of Health Personnel*
  • Counseling
  • Cross-Sectional Studies
  • Education, Medical, Continuing
  • Family Practice* / education
  • Female
  • Focus Groups
  • Health Behavior
  • Health Promotion
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Patient Education as Topic
  • Physician-Patient Relations*
  • Program Development
  • Risk Factors