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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Nov 4.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse. 2020 Mar 16;46(5):531–545. doi: 10.1080/00952990.2020.1712410

Table 7.

Optimal scores and classification performance of the AUDIT versions for likely AUD.

Scale Optimal Score Sensitivity Specificity J Study
Males
AUDIT 9 .82 .63 .45 Hagman (2016)
7 .76 .75 .51 *This study
AUDIT-C 5 .59 .83 .42 Hagman (2015)
4 .80 .61 .41 *This study
USAUDIT 13 .69 .81 .50 McCabe et al. (2019)
12 .62 .87 .49 *This study
USAUDIT-C 10 .61 .71 .32 McCabe et al. (2019)
6 .86 .57 .43 *This study
Females
AUDIT 8 .59 .75 .34 Hagman (2016)
6 .62 .88 .51 *This study
AUDIT-C 3 .73 .67 .40 Hagman (2015)
3 .78 .59 .37 *This study
USAUDIT 8 .83 .80 .63 McCabe et al. (2019)
8 .65 .88 .53 *This study
USAUDIT-C 5 .88 .71 .59 McCabe et al. (2019)
7 .54 .85 .39 *This study

N for each study was McCabe (162 males, 88 females); Hagman 2015 (472 males, 1225 females); Hagman 2016 (133 males, 118 females); This study (120 males, 263 females).