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Michigan Alcohol Screening Test (MAST); Short MAST (SMAST)
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History and guide
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Original MAST: Selzer (1971), http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/5565851.

There are 22- and 24-item versions of the MAST.

The original MAST has weighted scoring (compare the UMAST, with one point per
question).

SMAST (13 items): Selzer et al. (1975),
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/238068

MAST and related task validity in the elderly: Willenbring et al. (1987),
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3624732

Scoring (cut-offs):
http://www.bookrags.com/research/michigan-alcoholism-screening-test--edaa-02/,
Ross et al. (1990, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2270059)

Sources
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- http://www.outcometracker.org/library/MAST.pdf
- http://www.24thdiscourt.org/MAST.htm
- http://alcoholism.about.com/od/tests/a/mast.htm
- http://smchealth.org/sites/default/files/docs/1309587945SHORTMICHIGANALCOHOLSCREENINGTEST.pdf

Intellectual property rights
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Public domain.

“... a public-domain screening tool” (Michigan 24th District Court,
http://www.24thdiscourt.org/MAST.htm, accessed 2012-09-06, 2018-06-04.)
