المنشور الأصلي
Sullivan JT, Sykora K, Schneiderman J, Naranjo CA, Sellers EM. Assessment of alcohol withdrawal: the revised Clinical Institute Withdrawal Assessment for Alcohol scale (CIWA-Ar). Ten-item scale (nine items 0–7, orientation 0–4); total 0–67.
British Journal of Addiction, 1989
الإرشادات
Widely used for symptom-triggered benzodiazepine dosing in alcohol withdrawal. It requires a cooperative patient and is unreliable when confusion, delirium, or another acute illness confounds the items; it does not by itself diagnose or exclude severe withdrawal.