Proceedings
A Prospective Twelve-Year Follow-up of Alcoholic Women: A Prognostic Scale for Long-term Outcome (IN: Problems of Drug Dependence 1984: National Institute on Drug Abuse Research: Monograph Series 55)
Smith E M~~Cloninger C R
A study examining the long-term course of alcoholism in women who were systematically interviewed & diagnosed according to rigorous criteria at index & identifying pre-treatment characteristics associated with various outcomes 12 years after hospitalization is described. The first multivariate scale to predict prognosis in alcoholic women is presented. 7 Refs. (LH)