Mortality rate of alcoholic liver disease and risk of hospitalization for alcoholic liver cirrhosis, alcoholic hepatitis and alcoholic liver failure in Australia between 1993 and 2005

Internal Medicine Journal

Volumn 41, Issue 1 A, 2011, Pages 34-41

  Liang, W ^a   Chikritzhs, T ^a   Pascal, R ^a   Binns, C W ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Diagnosis; Liver disease; Morbidity; Mortality

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ALCOHOL LIVER DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LIVER FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AUSTRALIA; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; FEMALE; HEPATITIS, ALCOHOLIC; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, ALCOHOLIC; LIVER DISEASES, ALCOHOLIC; LIVER FAILURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; PATIENT ADMISSION; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78249249212     PISSN: 14440903     EISSN: 14455994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-5994.2010.02279.x     Document Type: Article

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