Working Toward a Gold Standard: The Severity of Ethanol Withdrawal Scale (SEWS) Versus the Clinical Institute Withdrawal Assessment Alcohol Scale (CIWA-Ar)-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Working Toward a Gold Standard: The Severity of Ethanol Withdrawal Scale (SEWS) Versus the Clinical Institute Withdrawal Assessment Alcohol Scale (CIWA-Ar)

Published:2023-03-18 Issue:3 Volume:58 Page:324-328
ISSN:0735-0414
Container-title:Alcohol and Alcoholism
language:en
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Author:

Beresford Thomas P¹²,Ronan Patrick J³⁴,Taub Julie⁵²,Learned Brenda⁶,Mi Zhibao⁷⁸,Anderson Mel¹²

Affiliation:

1. Laboratory for Clinical and Translational Research in Psychiatry , Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center, Aurora, CO 80045 , USA

2. Department of Psychiatry , School of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO 80045 , USA

3. Research Service , Sioux Falls VA Healthcare System, Sioux Falls, SD 57105 , USA

4. Department of Psychiatry and Division of Basic Biomedical Research , Sanford School of Medicine, University of South Dakota, Sioux Falls, SD 57105 USA

5. Department of Internal Medicine , Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, CO 80204 , USA

6. VHA Office of Community Care – Revenue, VISN 19: Rocky Mountain Network

7. Cooperative Studies Program , Perry Point VA Medical Center, Perry Point, MD 21902 , USA

8. University of Maryland School of Medicine , Baltimore, MD 21201 , USA

Abstract

Abstract Aim Proving the Severity of Ethanol Withdrawal Scale (SEWS) significantly reduces Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome (AWS) treatment Time on Medication Protocol (TOMP). Method Head-to-head Quality Assurance outcome compared separate cohorts of SEWS or Clinical Institute Withdrawal Assessment Alcohol Scale, Revised (CIWA-Ar) data using Student’s t and Wilcoxon tests. Results SEWS-driven treatment (n = 244) reduced TOMP to 2.2 days versus 3.4 days for CIWA-Ar (n = 137); P < 0.0001. Conclusion The SEWS is the superior measure of AWS symptoms.

Funder

Great Plains Veterans Research Foundation

National Institute of Mental Health

National Institutes of Health

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Subject

General Medicine

Link

https://academic.oup.com/alcalc/article-pdf/58/3/324/50254006/agad016.pdf

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