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The CAGE Questionnaire for Detection of AlcoholismA Remarkably Useful but Simple Tool
Commentary by Charles P. O’Brien, MD, PhD
JAMA. 2008;300(17):2054-2056.
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SUMMARY OF THE ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Detecting Alcoholism
The CAGE Questionnaire
John A. Ewing, MD
JAMA. 1984;252(14):1905-1907.
Four clinical interview questions, the CAGE questions, have proved useful in helping to make a diagnosis of alcoholism. The questions focus on Cutting down, Annoyance by criticism, Guilty feeling, and Eye-openers. The acronym "CAGE" helps the physician to recall the questions.
How these questions were identified and their use in clinical and research studies are described.
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Commentary
Some of the most remarkable advances in medicine are deceptively simple. So it is with the CAGE questionnaire, published in JAMA 25 years ago.1 Four simple, easy-to-remember questions have had a major role in detecting alcoholism, a chronic disease that too often remains under the radar.
The 4 simple questions are "Have you ever:
(1) felt the need to . . . [Full Text of this Article] Need for Education
Author Affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
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