ArticleClinical and experimental emergency medicine2018
Effect of alcohol use on emergency department length of stay among minimally injured patients based on mechanism of injury: multicenter observational study.
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- Impact of Alcohol Intoxication on Mortality and Emergency Department Resource Use in Suicidal Patients.The western journal of emergency medicine · 2026Article
- Psychoactive substances and previous hospital admissions, triage and length of stay in rural injuries: a prospective observational study.Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine · 2023Observational
- Drug and alcohol use in Tanzanian road traffic collision drivers.African journal of emergency medicine : Revue africaine de la medecine d'urgence · 2021Article
- Analysis of Factors Associated With Length of Stay of Opioid-Related Emergency Department Visits.Cureus · 2021Article
- The effects of the COVID-19 lockdown and alcohol restriction on trauma-related emergency department cases in a South African regional hospital.African journal of emergency medicine : Revue africaine de la medecine d'urgence · 2021Article
- Effect of alcohol intake on the severity of injuries caused by slipping down.Clinical and experimental emergency medicine · 2020Article
- Correlation between Alcohol Use Disorders, Blood Alcohol Content, and Length of Stay in Trauma Patients.Journal of emergencies, trauma, and shockArticle
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Abstract
objectiveThis study aimed to evaluate the effect of alcohol use on emergency department (ED) length of stay (LOS) among minimally injured patients by mechanism of injury.
methodsThis was a retrospective study of injury surveillance data for injured patients (except poisoning), aged over 18 years, discharged home from the ED, and treated at seven academic EDs in Korea during 2008 to 2012. Patients were divided into alcohol-related and alcohol-unrelated groups based on self-report. We used multivariable quantile regression models for the analysis and adjusted covariates including age, sex, consciousness status, severity of injury, emergency medical service use, the season, day and time of visit, and hospital. To determine if there were different effects of alcohol use across mechanism of injury, all analyses were stratified by each mechanism.
resultsAmong 192,200 patients, 95,807 patients were analyzed. The number of participants in the alcohol-related group was 16,249 (17.0%). In the multivariable quantile regression model, the alcohol-related group had significantly longer ED LOS at the 10th (7 minutes; 95% confidence interval [CI], 6 to 8), 50th (21 minutes; 95% CI, 19 to 23), and 90th (81 minutes; 95% CI, 74 to 87) percentiles when compared to the alcohol-unrelated group. The effect of alcohol use on increased ED LOS was most prominent in motor vehicle injuries.
conclusionWe found that alcohol use was associated with increased emergency ED LOS. Furthermore, if we limited our attention to the effect of alcohol use on the number of patients, the burden of alcohol use on the ED would have been underestimated.
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