@article{ref1,
title="Acute and usual drinking among emergency trauma patients: a study on alcohol consumption and injury patterns",
journal="Injury prevention",
year="2009",
author="Kuendig, Hervé and Hasselberg, Marie and Gmel, Gerhard and Daeppen, Jean-Bernard and Laflamme, Lucie",
volume="15",
number="4",
pages="270-274",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: To investigate the relationship between usual and acute alcohol consumption among injured patients and, when combined, how they covary with other injury attributes. METHODS: Data from a randomised sample of 486 injured patients interviewed in an emergency department (Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland) were analysed using the chi(2) test for independence and cluster analysis. RESULTS: Acute alcohol consumption (24.7%) was associated with usual drinking and particularly with high volumes of consumption. Six injury clusters were identified. Over-representations of acute consumption were found in a cluster typical of injuries sustained through interpersonal violence and in another formed by miscellaneous circumstances. A third cluster, typical of sports injuries, was linked to a group of frequent heavy episodic drinkers (without acute consumption). CONCLUSIONS: Among injured patients, acute alcohol consumption is common and associated with usual drinking. Acute and/or usual consumption form part of some, but not all, injury clusters.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1353-8047",
doi="10.1136/ip.2008.020198",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/ip.2008.020198"
}