Open AccessA point‐prevalence survey of alcohol‐related presentations to Australasian emergency departments
Author(s) -
EgertonWarburton Diana,
Gosbell Andrew,
Wadsworth Angela,
Richardson Drew,
Fatovich Daniel M.
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.946
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1753-6405
pISSN - 1326-0200
DOI - 10.1111/1753-6405.12770
Subject(s) - harm , medicine , emergency department , public health , alcohol , environmental health , family medicine , medical emergency , emergency medicine , psychiatry , nursing , psychology , biochemistry , chemistry , social psychology
We report the results from our second point‐prevalence survey of alcohol harm in Australasian emergency departments (EDs). This was conducted as part of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM) Alcohol Harm in EDs Project.1 The project's aim was to quantify the amount of alcohol harm presenting to Australasian EDs and to raise awareness of the scale of this public health issue. Previous research attempting to quantify alcohol harm in EDs has been largely retrospective, coding‐based or single‐site, and has estimated total ED alcohol‐related attendances in the range of 0.5 to nine per cent.