Substance use-related outpatient consultations in specialized health care: An underestimated entity

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1359-1364

  Sillanaukee, Päivi ^a,b   Kääriäinen, Janne ^b   Sillanaukee, Pekka ^a,b   Poutanen, Pauli ^a   Seppä, Kaija ^a,b,c  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TAMPERE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Finland)

^c TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Diagnoses; Discharge Data; Specialized Health Care; Substance Use; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ALCOHOL LIVER DISEASE; ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL; ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONSULTATION; DEMENTIA; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; GASTRITIS; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROPATHY; OUTPATIENT CARE; PANCREATITIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE;

AMBULATORY CARE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT CENTERS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 0036736687     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000374-200209000-00008     Document Type: Article

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