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How do you decide when to check a PEth level in patients hospitalized with alcohol-associated disease?

How do you counsel patients on the purpose of this test?
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Hospital Medicine · Wexner Medical Center at The Ohio State University
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In my practice as a hospitalist and addiction medicine specialist, I use PEth (phosphatidylethanol) as an adjunctive tool to assess alcohol exposure over the preceding 2 to 4 weeks. I most commonly order it when the alcohol use history is unclear, when a patient's clinical presentation is highly sug...

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