Set-up of a population-based model to verify alcohol abstinence via monitoring of the direct alcohol marker phosphatidylethanol 16:0/18:1.

Katleen Van UytfangheLiesl HeughebaertEmmanuel AbatihChristophe P Stove

Published in: Addiction (Abingdon, England) (2022)

Claims of alcohol abstinence can be verified using a two-step decision tree for phosphatidylethanol 16:0/18:1 values, even when those values are above the limit for 'alcohol abstinence'.

Keyphrases

alcohol consumption
smoking cessation
health insurance
decision making