Trends in Alcohol‐Related Emergency Department Visits in the United States: Results from the Nationwide Emergency Department Sample, 2006 to 2014

M. White, Aaron; E. Slater, Megan; I. Ng, Grace; Hingson, Ralph; A. Breslow, Rosalind

doi:10.1111/acer.13559

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Trends in Alcohol‐Related Emergency Department Visits in the United States: Results from the Nationwide Emergency Department Sample, 2006 to 2014

Published in Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research • Jan 2, 2018

Authors:

Aaron M. White

Megan E. Slater

Grace I. Ng

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Acute alcohol consumption and chronic alcohol consumption increase the burden placed on emergency departments (EDs) by contributing to injury and disease. Whether the prevalence of alcohol-related ED visits in the United States has changed in recent years is unknown. The purpose of this ...

Subject

Emergency department

Medicine

Alcohol consumption

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