title: Alcoholics and the emergency ward. Part I. Clinical characteristics.
abstract: A study of White and Black (Black, Cape Coloured and Asiatic) male alcoholics who attended the psychiatric emergency service unit at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, is presented. The psychosocial and clinical characteristics are described and compared. In addition, the associated physical and psychiatric morbidity is tabulated.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000437:Alcoholism; D044383:Black People; D004637:Emergency Services, Psychiatric; D005260:Female; D006757:Hospital Units; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage; D008605:Mental Health Services; D008875:Middle Aged; D010359:Patient Readmission; D012923:Social Class; D013019:South Africa; D013375:Substance Withdrawal Syndrome / Q000145:classification / Q000150:complications; D044465:White People