The Use of Hospital Beds for the Treatment of Excessive Drinkers Without Serious Medical Complications

Summary During fiscal year 1983–84, Ontario general hospitals admitted 2651 patients with a primary diagnosis of alcohol dependence or non‐dependent use of alcohol but with no secondary diagnoses requiring treatments only available in hospital. These averaged 10.7 days in hospital and the total cost...

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Published inBritish Journal of Addiction Vol. 82; no. 2; pp. 193 - 196
Main Authors OGBORNE, ALAN C., ADRIAN, MANUELLA
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.02.1987
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Subjects
Alcoholism - therapy
Biological and medical sciences
Hospitalization
Hospitals, General - utilization
Hospitals, Public - utilization
Humans
Medical sciences
Mental health
Ontario
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Social psychiatry. Ethnopsychiatry
Ontario
Human
Management
Hospital organization
Alcoholism
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Summary:Summary During fiscal year 1983–84, Ontario general hospitals admitted 2651 patients with a primary diagnosis of alcohol dependence or non‐dependent use of alcohol but with no secondary diagnoses requiring treatments only available in hospital. These averaged 10.7 days in hospital and the total cost of their hospitalization (excluding medical services) was estimated at $7.4 million. Many of these admissions appear to have been for alcohol detoxication or for psychosocial treatments of alcohol abuse. Because alternative, more cost‐effective methods for detoxication and treatment are suggested by the research literature, efforts to use and develop such alternatives in local communities are recommended.
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ISSN:0952-0481
0965-2140
2056-5178
DOI:10.1111/j.1360-0443.1987.tb01460.x