The more you drink, the harder you fall: A systematic review and meta-analysis of how acute alcohol consumption and injury or collision risk increase together

Drug and Alcohol Dependence

Volumn 110, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 108-116

  Taylor, B ^a,b,i   Irving, H M ^a,i   Kanteres, F ^a,i   Room, R ^c,d,i   Borges, G ^g,i   Cherpitel, C ^e,f,i   Greenfield, T ^f,i   Rehm, J ^a,b,h,i  

^a CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c TURNING POINT ALCOHOL AND DRUG CENTRE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^e Research Center   (United States)

^f ALCOHOL RESEARCH GROUP   (United States)

^g INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PSIQUIATRÍA RAMÓN DE LA FUENTE MUÑIZ   (Mexico)

^h DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

ⁱ WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Epidemiology; Injury; Meta analysis; Risk

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; DRUNKEN DRIVING; FALLING; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK REDUCTION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HUMANS; ODDS RATIO; PUBLICATION BIAS; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 77953708349     PISSN: 03768716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2010.02.011     Document Type: Article

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