Alcohol and Alcoholism Advance Access originally published online on November 18, 2005
Alcohol and Alcoholism 2006 41(2):205; doi:10.1093/alcalc/agh239
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR
A POSSIBLE WAY TO MOTIVATE AMBIVALENT PATIENTS TO UNDERGO DETOXIFICATION
Alcohol Treatment Centre, Lausanne, Switzerland
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed at: Alcohol Treatment Centre, Mont-Paisible 16, 1011 Lausanne CHUV, Switzerland. Tel.: +4121 314 08 75; Fax: +4121 314 05 62; E-mail: Jean-Bernard.Daeppen@chuv.ch
(Received 12 July 2005; first review notified 15 August 2005; in final revised form 19 September 2005; accepted 22 October 2005)
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Health-related quality-of-life and well-being are two important outcome measures for inpatients attending alcohol treatment programs. Rapid improvement in well-being and health related quality-of-life may be a possible way to motivate ambivalent patients to undergo detoxification.
The present letter is an ancillary report of