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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2011 Feb 25;35(7):1270–1276. doi: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2011.01462.x

Table 2.

Prevalence and concordance of alcohol use disorders (AUD) at different thresholds in the Emergency Room Collaborative Alcohol Analysis Project (ERCAAP)

Total Sample Current Drinkers Kappa w/AUD (current drinkers)* % of those with DSM-IV Abuse classified with new diagnosis % of those with DSM-IV Dep. classified with new diagnosis % of those NON-DSM-IV Dep. classified with new diagnosis
Proposed DSM-V 11 criteria, without legal, add craving
 1 or more 20.5 33.3 0.68 99.5% 100.0% 14.5%
 2 or more 12.8 20.9 0.80 65.6% 100.0% 6.3%
 3 or more 9.3 15.1 0.79 36.6% 100.0% 2.4%
 4 or more 7.3 11.8 0.68 14.1% 92.1% 0.9%
 5 or more 5.8 9.5 0.58 2.1% 81.1% 0.1%
*

Kappa is for the concordance between any alcohol abuse or dependence in the DSM-IV and the threshold using the proposed 11 criteria for DSM-V