Questionable generalizability of Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test‐Consumption scoring warrants caution when used for outcome monitoring: Evidence from simulated and real‐world trial data

When used with typical brief intervention samples, using the AUDIT-C for outcome monitoring risks right-censoring (and thereby false negatives) and non-meaningful total scores. Researchers and clinicians should reconsider repurposing the AUDIT-C as an outcome measure in future alcohol intervention studies and re-examine prior trials that relied on it, to improve the quality of evidence.