Alcohol Screening Scores and Medication Nonadherence

  1. Chris L. Bryson, MD, MS;
  2. David H. Au, MD, MS;
  3. Haili Sun, PhD;
  4. Emily C. Williams, MPH;
  5. Daniel R. Kivlahan, PhD; and
  6. Katharine A. Bradley, MD, MPH
  1. From the Health Services Research & Development Northwest Center of Excellence, Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, and University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
    1. Figure 1.
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      Figure 1. Study flow diagram.

      ACQUIP = Ambulatory Care Quality Improvement Project; AUDIT-C = Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test–Consumption.

      * Drug cohorts are not mutually exclusive. Cohorts are defined as patients who received both 1 or more fills of the drug class within 2 years before the date on which the AUDIT-C was returned (index date) and 1 or more fills in the year after the index date.

    2. Figure 2.
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      Figure 2. Proportion of adherent patients, by Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test–Consumption (AUDIT-C) score and days in observation period.

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