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| Emergency room injury presentations as an indicator of alcohol-related problems in the community: a multilevel analysis of an international study *.: An article from: Journal of Studies on Alcohol | Digitalby Deidra J. Young (Author), Tim Stockwell (Author), Cheryl J. Cherpitel (Author), Yu Ye (Author), Scott MacDonald (Author), Guilherme Borges (Author), Norman Giesbrecht (Author)
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| | Binding: | Digital | | Publisher: | Alcohol Research Documentation, Inc. | | Page Count: | 23 Pages | | Publication Date: | September 01, 2004 | | Sales Rank: | 7,270,647th |
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This digital document is an article from Journal of Studies on Alcohol, published by Alcohol Research Documentation, Inc. on September 1, 2004. The length of the article is 6787 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.From the author: Objective: This study describes and examines the development of surrogate measures of acute alcohol-related injury for use in the evaluation of community-based prevention initiatives. Method: An international collaborative study of alcohol and injury, the Emergency Room Collaborative Alcohol Analysis Project (ERCAAP), provided a subset of data on 8,580 emergency room (ER) presentations from five countries and 28 ER facilities. Results: Presentations most likely to be alcohol related were those made between 12:00 AM and 4:59 AM (56%), on Fridays, Saturdays or Sundays (26%); and those among injured persons who were male (28%), who were aged between 18 and 45 years (24%) or who were unmarried (24%). Multilevel logistic regression models confirmed the significance of the above variables as predictors of alcohol involvement prior to the injury event. The strongest predictor variable was presentation between 12 midnight and 4:59 AM with an odds ratio of 4.92 (Wald Test [chi square] = 397.6, p < .001). Being male had an odds ratio of 3.01 (Wald Test [chi square] = 247.25, p < .001), and presenting on a Friday, Saturday or Sunday night had an odds ratio of 1.50 (Wald Test [chi square] = 49.6, p < .001), whereas being under 45 (odds ratio [OR] = 1.20, p < .05) and being unmarried (OR = 1.2, p < .01) were less strong predictors. Combining all these values for variables raised the probability of prior alcohol involvement in such injury presentations to 0.65, although only 3.37% of all cases met these criteria, limiting applicability of this combined variable as a surrogate measure for intervention studies. Probabilities of prior alcohol involvement are presented with other combinations of values for the predictor variables. Conclusions: Frequency of nighttime injury presentations to ER facilities, particularly by men, can be used as a reliable surrogate measure of alcohol-related injuries for various epidemiological and evaluation purposes.Citation DetailsTitle: Emergency room injury presentations as an indicator of alcohol-related problems in the community: a multilevel analysis of an international study *.Author: Deidra J. YoungPublication: Journal of Studies on Alcohol (Refereed)Date: September 1, 2004Publisher: Alcohol Research Documentation, Inc.Volume: 65 Issue: 5 Page: 605(8)Distributed by Thomson Gale |
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