Prevalence of alcohol related attendance at an inner city emergency department and its impact: A dual prospective and retrospective cohort study

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 187-193

  Parkinson, Kathryn ^a   Newbury Birch, Dorothy ^a   Phillipson, Angela ^b   Hindmarch, Paul ^b   Kaner, Eileen ^a   Stamp, Elaine ^a   Vale, Luke ^a   Wright, John ^b   Connolly, Jim ^b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL VICTORIA INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED KINGDOM; VERY ELDERLY; ADOLESCENT; ALCOHOL-RELATED DISORDERS; COMPLICATION; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; ECONOMICS; ENGLAND; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOL-RELATED DISORDERS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84959160647     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emermed-2014-204581     Document Type: Article

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