Citation

Albrektsen SB, Thomsen JL, Aalund O, Breiting VB, Danielsen L, Helweg-Larsen K, Jacobsen J, Kjaerulff H, Staugaard H. Forensic Sci. Int. 1989; 41(1-2): 181-191.

Affiliation

Department of Dermatovenerology, Bispebjerg Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1989, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

2767576

Abstract

A material of 1316 victims of deliberate violence was collected prospectively during a one year period in three Danish emergency wards covering a provincial/rural area and two metropolitan areas. The frequency of alcohol intoxication was determined. Forty-one percent of the patients were intoxicated. The highest frequency was found in male victims, in the provincial/rural area, in restaurants or their vicinity, in the age group 35-49, during evenings and nights and in May. It is difficult to indicate specific preventive measures. However, a more restrictive attitude is suggested with regard to serving alcohol to intoxicated persons in restaurants.

Language: en