Samenvatting
An advanced approach to enhance effective treatment of alcohol dependent patients is to objectively monitor drinking behavior by the use of alcohol abuse biomarkers. One of these biomarkers is the Early Detection of Alcohol Consumption or EDAC test. The EDAC test consists in combining the results of a panel of automated routine blood tests to predict whether an individual is a heavy drinker or a non-heavy drinker. This article describes the diagnostic performance of the EDAC test when used for two applications, 1) to identify alcohol consumption in heavy drinkers and 2) to monitor abstinence and relapses in outpatients. (Author/publisher) For the covering abstract of the conference see ITRD Abstract No. E201067.