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Estimating Alcohol Involvement in Trauma Patients: Search for a Surrogate
Author(s) -
Treno Andrew J.,
Cooper Kirby,
Roeper Peter
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
alcoholism: clinical and experimental research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.267
H-Index - 153
eISSN - 1530-0277
pISSN - 0145-6008
DOI - 10.1111/j.1530-0277.1994.tb01428.x
Subject(s) - bivariate analysis , blood alcohol content , alcohol , medicine , surrogate endpoint , weighting , blood alcohol , poison control , injury prevention , statistics , emergency medicine , biology , mathematics , biochemistry , radiology
This study explores the potential for the development of a surrogate for alcohol‐involved traumatic injury. It presents a bivariate probit analysis that simultaneously models likelihoods of patients being tested for blood alcohol content (BAC) and having positive BACs given testing using 17,356 adult trauma cases selected from the California Regional Trauma Registry. It concludes that patient and injury characteristics predict both testing and BAC, and that a weighting scheme may be profitably used to determine changes in levels of alcohol‐involved trauma in populations over time in the absence of empirical measurement of BAC.