Studying psychoactive substance use in injured patients: Does exclusion of late arriving patients bias the results?

Drug and Alcohol Dependence

Volumn 127, Issue 1-3, 2013, Pages 187-192

  Bogstrand, Stig Tore ^a   Rossow, Ingeborg ^b,c   Normann, Per Trygve ^d   Ekeberg, Øivind ^a  

^a ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR ALCOHOL AND DRUG RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Drugs; Emergency department; Injury; Self report; Substance use

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; HYPNOTIC AGENT; ILLICIT DRUG; TRANQUILIZER;

ADULT; AGE; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY WARD; FALLING; FEMALE; GENDER; HOME; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPNOTIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; INTOXICATION; MALE; NIGHT; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SELF REPORT; VIOLENCE; WORKING TIME; WORKPLACE;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ADMISSION; PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SUBSTANCE ABUSE DETECTION; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; TIME FACTORS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84870870698     PISSN: 03768716     EISSN: 18790046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2012.06.029     Document Type: Article

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