title: Alcohol-related emergency department visits associated with collegiate football games.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  In 2003, after several post-college football game riots, multiple strategies including strict enforcement of open container laws were instituted by the authors' city and university. The authors compared alcohol-related visits to the on-campus emergency department (ED) associated with home football games in 2002 and 2006, hypothesizing that alcohol-related visits should decline.
  
  
  METHODS
  ED patients during home game weekends.
  
  
  METHODS
  Retrospective cohort study comparing the 2002 and 2006 home games-similar seasons wherein the team went undefeated. Logistic regression assessed the impact of environmental and patient characteristics on the likelihood of an ED visit being alcohol related.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In total 2,220 visits in 2002 and 2,146 visits in 2006 were reviewed. Alcohol-related visits increased from 2002 (7.9%) to 2006 (9.5%, p = .06). Despite community interventions, the odds of an ED visit being alcohol related increased (odds ratio [OR] 1.3, 95% confidence interval [CI₉₅] 1.06-1.64).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Community measures did not reduce alcohol-related visits to the ED.
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
authors.forename: Janice
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Shook
authors.forename: Brian C
authors.initials: BC
authors.lastname: Hiestand
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000435:Alcoholic Intoxication / Q000150:complications* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D005538:Football; D006801:Humans; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012931:Social Environment; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014495:Universities; D055815:Young Adult