Alcohol, tobacco, and drug use among emergency department patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The prevalence of alcohol, tobacco, and other drug (ATOD) use among emergency department (ED) patients is high and many of these patients have unrecognized and unmet substance use treatment needs. Identification of patients in the ED with problem substance use is not routine at this time.

Methods

We examined screening data, including standardized measures of ATOD use (HSI, AUDIT-C, DAST-10), from 14,866 ED patients in six hospitals across the United States. We expected younger age, male gender, higher triage acuity, and other substance use severity (ATOD) to be associated both with use versus abstinence and with severity of each substance use type. We used negative binomial hurdle models to examine the association between covariates and (1) substance use versus ab

SUBMITTER: Sanjuan PM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4030520 | biostudies-literature | 2014 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature