Data from prevalent cases of subjects with alcohol related problems organised according to source of flagging (Voghera, northern Italy, 1997)
| Flagging sources | Men | Women | All | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| <50 years | ⩾50 years | <50 years | ⩾50 years | ||||||
| Patients flagged by one source | |||||||||
| F1 | 30 | 40 | 6 | 12 | 88 | ||||
| F2 | 31 | 12 | 7 | 7 | 57 | ||||
| F3 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 22 | ||||
| F4 | 46 | 81 | 12 | 16 | 155 | ||||
| Patients flagged by two sources | |||||||||
| F1 - F2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | ||||
| F1 - F3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||
| F1 - F4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | ||||
| F2 - F3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | ||||
| F2 - F4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | ||||
| F3 - F4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | ||||
| Patients flagged by three source | |||||||||
| F1 - F2 - F3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| F1 - F2 - F4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| F1 - F3 - F4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||
| F2 - F3 - F4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | ||||
| Patients flagged by four sources | |||||||||
| F1 - F2 - F3 - F4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||
| Total | 134 | 147 | 30 | 38 | 349 | ||||
Flagging sources: F1: self help volunteering groups (anonymous alcoholics and on treatment alcoholic groups); F2: Psychiatric Ambulatory; F3: Public Alcohology Service; F4: hospital discharges. Among the 74 cases flagged by seven responder family physicians (unreported in the table) all were also flagged by F1, 2 by both F1 and F2, 8 by both F1 and F4, 1 by F1, F2 and F4.