ArticleJournal of safety research2020
Fall-related emergency department visits involving alcohol among older adults.
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- Risk Factors for Fall-Related Mild Traumatic Brain Injuries Among Older Adults: A Systematic Review Highlighting Research Gaps.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Pooled it
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- Prevalence of Screening Patients for Alcohol Use in West Virginia: A Cross-Sectional Observational Study.Journal of Appalachian health · 2025Article
- Alcohol use is associated with intracranial hemorrhage in older emergency department head trauma patients.Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open · 2024Article
- Alcohol and Substance Use Among the Working Age Population: A Nationwide Study of Fall-Related Emergency Department Visits.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2024Article
- Emergency Department Visits for Alcohol-Associated Falls Among Older Adults in the United States, 2011 to 2020.Annals of emergency medicine · 2023Article
- Substance use and pre-hospital crash injury severity among U.S. older adults: A five-year national cross-sectional study.PloS one · 2023Article
- Could reasons for admission help to screen unhealthy alcohol use in emergency departments? A multicenter French study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Recurrent risk of hospitalization among older people with problematic alcohol use: a multiple failure-time analysis with a discontinuous risk model.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2022Article
- Severe Ground Fall Injury Associated with Alcohol Consumption in Geriatric Patients.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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- Hospital Admission Rate, Cumulative Hospitalized Days, and Time to Admission Among Older Persons With Substance Use and Psychiatric Conditions.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Patient and provider factors associated with receipt and delivery of brief interventions for unhealthy alcohol use in primary care.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2021Article
- Characteristics of fall-related head injury versus non-head injury in the older adults.BMC geriatrics · 2021Article
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Abstract
problemFalls are the leading cause of injury deaths among adults aged 65 years and older. Characteristics of these falls may vary with alcohol use.
objectiveDescribe and compare characteristics of older adult fall-related emergency department (ED) visits with indication of alcohol to visits with no indication.
methodsUsing nationally-representative 2015 National Electronic Injury Surveillance System-All Injury Program data, we compared demographic characteristics for fall-related ED visits by indication of alcohol consumption. Alcohol-indicated ED visits were matched on age group, sex, treatment month, and treatment day to ED visits with no alcohol indication using a 1:4 ratio and injury characteristics (i.e., diagnosis, body part injured, disposition) were compared. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION: Of 38,640 ED records, 906 (1.9%) indicated use of alcohol. Fall-related ED visits among women were less likely to indicate alcohol (1.0%) compared to ED visits among men (3.8%). ED visits indicating alcohol decreased with age from 4.1% for those 65-74 years to 1.5% for those 75-84 and <1% for those 85+. After controlling for age-group, sex, and month and day of treatment, 17.0% of ED visits with no alcohol indication had a traumatic brain injury compared to 34.8% of alcohol-indicated ED visits. Practical applications: Alcohol-indicated fall ED visits resulted in more severe head injury than those that did not indicate alcohol. To determine whether alcohol use should be part of clinical risk assessment for older adult falls, more routinely collected data and detailed information on the amount of alcohol consumed at the time of the fall are needed.
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