@article{ref1,
title="Drinking patterns and traffic casualties in Switzerland: matching survey data and police records to design preventive action",
journal="Public health",
year="2005",
author="Gmel, Gerhard and Heeb, Jean-Luc and Rezny, L. and Rehm, Jürgen T. and Mohler-Kuo, Meichun",
volume="119",
number="5",
pages="426-436",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: To examine the association between drinking patterns and alcohol-related traffic casualties. STUDY DESIGN: Data linkage of cross-sectional survey data on alcohol consumption with official traffic casualty records. METHODS: Alcohol consumption measures for usual heavy drinking and risky single occasion drinking were derived for different time segments of the day from a 7-day drinking diary study of 747 current drinkers. Measures were correlated with official records of alcohol-related traffic casualties. RESULTS: There was a high correlation between alcohol-related traffic casualties and the number of risky single occasion drinkers that consumed alcohol outside their homes (r=0.92). On average, about 50% of these drinking occasions were attributed to usual moderate drinkers. The proportion of usual heavy drinkers was lowest in the time segments with the most alcohol-related casualties. CONCLUSION: Preventive countermeasures should be targeted at the general population, enforced particularly during specific periods of the week.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0033-3506",
doi="10.1016/j.puhe.2004.07.009",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2004.07.009"
}