[Epidemiologic study of alcoholism at the San Carlos University Hospital in Madrid].
We studied the patients that were admitted to the Psychiatry Department of Hospital Clinico San Carlos in Madrid from 1977 to 1986, evaluating the prevalence of the abuse and/or alcohol dependence and its distribution by the sociodemographic variables of age and sex. Of a total of 9,425 patients, 772 had a diagnosis of alcoholism which represented and 8.1% of the admittances. The associations of alcoholism with other psychiatric pathologies was analyzed by means of the study of double diagnosis. A 15.5% of the alcoholic patients admitted between 1981-1986 had a second diagnosis.
Martínez Parra
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Garrido Martínez
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Marín Herrera
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Valdés Zamora
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Civeira Murillo
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching; D006785:Hospitals, University; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000150:complications; D008875:Middle Aged; D013030:Spain
Estudio epidemiológico del alcoholismo en el Hospital Universitario San Carlos de Madrid.