Predictors of High Resource Consumption in Alcohol Intoxicated Patients in the Emergency Department.

ABSTRACT: Background: previous studies have reported that the incidence of alcohol-related visits to emergency departments (ED) has increased, but little is known about how the necessary resources per visit have changed, or about the predictors and reasons for resource consumption. Methods: a retrospective analysis was performed of all consultations with a primary or secondary diagnosis of acute alcohol intoxication admitted to the ED of Bern University Hospital, Switzerland, between 1 June 2012, and 31 May 2017. Clinical characteristics and resource consumption were extracted and analysed over time. Results: in all, 196,045 ED consultations included 2586 acute alcohol intoxications, corresponding to 1.3% of the total. The incidences of acute alcohol intoxications have tended to increase over the la

SUBMITTER: Ronz K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7312041 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature