A 6-months assessment of the alcohol-related clinical burden at emergency rooms (ERs) in 11 acute care hospitals of an urban area in Germany

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Baune, Bernhard T ^a   Mikolajczyk, Rafael T ^b   Reymann, Gerhard ^c   Duesterhaus, Annette ^d   Fleck, Susanne ^d   Kratz, Hildegard ^d   Sundermann, Ulrike ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^d City Council of Public Health   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GERMANY; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SEX RATIO; ACUTE DISEASE; ALCOHOL-RELATED DISORDERS; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; MEDICINE; MIDDLE AGED; SPECIALIZATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL-RELATED DISORDERS; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; GERMANY; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICINE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ADMISSION; SPECIALIZATION; URBAN HEALTH; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EID: 29144526131     PISSN: 14726963     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-5-73     Document Type: Article

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