*From the UCLA School of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, B-976 Factor Building, Los Angeles, California.
†From RAND, 1700 Main Street, Santa Monica, California.
‡From Arlene Fink Associates, 1562 Casale Road, Pacific Palisades, California.
¶From the UCLA School of Public Health, Box 951772, Los Angeles, California.
#The expert panel was comprised of the following members: John C. Beck, MD, chair, University of California, Los Angeles, CA; Wendy L. Adams, MD, MPH, University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE; Roland Atkinson, MD, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR; Thomas Babor, PhD, MPH, The University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT; Thomas Beresford, MD, University of Colorado, Denver, CO; David Buchsbaum, MD, Aetna U.S. Health Care, Richmond, VA; Raul Caetano, MD, PhD, Alcohol Research Group, Berkeley, CA; Michael Jacobs, MD, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA; Ernest Noble, MD, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, CA; Alfonso Paredes, MD, University of California Los Angeles, CA; Alison A. Moore, MD, MPH, conference co chair, University of California, Los Angeles, CA; Arlene Fink, PhD, principal investigator, Arlene Fink Associates and University of California, Los Angeles, CA.
This project was supported by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (Grant #N44AA52009).
This paper was presented at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, Cinncinati, OH, November 15, 1997.
Address correspondence to: Alison A. Moore, MD, MPH, UCLA Multicampus Program in Geriatrics and Gerontology, 10945 Le Conte Avenue, Suite 2339, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1687. E-mail: [email protected].
Received February 4, 1998; initial review completed March 31, 1998; final acceptance July 20, 1998.
