Article(electronic)March 18, 2023

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

In: Alcohol and alcoholism: the international journal of the Medical Council on Alcoholism (MCA) and the journal of the European Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism (ESBRA), Volume 58, Issue 3, p. 324-328

Beresford, Thomas P; Ronan, Patrick J; Taub, Julie; Learned, Brenda; Mi, Zhibao; Anderson, Mel

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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.

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English

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

ISSN: 1464-3502

DOI

10.1093/alcalc/agad016

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