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Appropriate
setting Summary of Evidence Reference
Any Results of a study in 7 countries indicate
that the ASSIST provides a valid measure of
risk for individual substances and for total
substance involvement.
WHO, 2002
Any AUDIT is a useful alcohol screen in
general medical settings and that its ability
to correctly predict which patients will
experience alcohol withdrawal is increased
when used in combination with biological
markers.
Dolman et al.,
2005; Saunders et
al., 1993
Hospital Admission AUDIT-PC score is an excellent
discriminator of AWS (Sensitivity=91%,
Specificity =98.7%).
Pecoraro et al.,
2014
Hospital AWS scale had good performance in
predicting alcohol withdrawal delirium.
Wetterling et al.,
1997a
Hospital Patients demonstrated shorter overall course
of alcohol withdrawal using the AWS
compared with WAS.
Foy et al., 2006
Hospital BAWS patients received less diazepiam and
had fewer assessments, but both groups had
similar lengths of stay, treatment completion
rate, no incidence of seizure or delirium.
Rastegar et al., 2017
ICU Excellent reliability and validity in
identifying patients with delirium in ICU.
Ely et al., 2001
Any Well established reliability and validity. Sullivan et al.,
1989
Hospital Good reliability and validity specific to
detection of delirium.
Otter et al., 2005
Hospital GMAWS score of ≥1 predicted CIWA-A
≥8, with a sensitivity of 100% and a
specificity of 12%. GMAWS score of ≥2
predicted CIWA-A ≥8, with a sensitivity of
98% and a specificity of 39%.
Holzman et al.,
2016b
