title: [Alcohol-related admissions to a district hospital].
abstract: This is a retrospective study of alcohol-related admittances to the medical department of Molde District Hospital. All cases with certain diagnoses where alcohol is mentioned as a possible cause were recorded, and compared with a reference group of matched, non-alcohol-related cases. During the period 1980-86, 228 patients were admitted 350 times to the medical wards of the hospital. These patients had a significantly higher number of admittances than the reference patients, both to the medical ward and to other wards. They also had a higher frequency of emergency admittances. The average age of patients admitted for alcohol-related causes was much lower than that of the general patient population. The relative number of recorded alcohol-related admittances to the medical ward increased over the seven year period, from 3.8 to 5.5% for men and from 0.7 to 1.6% for women.
authors.affiliation: Medisinsk avdeling, Fylkessjukehuset i Molde.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bovim
authors.forename: B I
authors.initials: BI
authors.lastname: Hana
authors.forename: E K
authors.initials: EK
authors.lastname: Bovim
authors.forename: O G
authors.initials: OG
authors.lastname: Aasland
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fauske
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000435:Alcoholic Intoxication / Q000150:complications*; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006767:Hospitals, District / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009664:Norway / Q000453:epidemiology; D010343:Patient Admission / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012189:Retrospective Studies
vernacular_title: Alkoholrelaterte innleggelser i et fylkessykehus.