… to evaluate changes in health care utilization associated with inpatient alcoholism treatment
in alcoholics of low socioeconomic status with different histories of treatment relapse. Method…

… in outpatient and inpatient medical care utilization associated with outpatient and inpatient
treatment of alcohol abuse by comparing alcoholics who engaged in treatment to alcoholics …

… time interaction for inpatient use, indicating that heavy drinker's inpatient use increased over
5 … on lower-risk drinking and health services utilization and cost in an AOD treatment setting; …

… about hospitalization utilization of moderate drinking and abstinence vs heavy drinking …
of people with severe lifetime alcohol dependence who sought treatment (in other words, for …

… This study is the first to compare the offset effects by type of medical care use (inpatient, …
use disorders treated primarily in an outpatient setting. As in previous studies on medical offset, …

… Due to the very limited numbers of female alcoholics utilizing VA health services, we included
only male alcoholics in our sample. Male patients with the relevant last digits of their SSN …

… in health care utilization and cost for the 6 months prior to intake through 5 years post-intake
for a sample of patients with alcohol … utilization measures: hospital and ER use and inpatient …

… health care utilization and costs drop after initiation of alcoholism treatment; Key words:
alcoholism treatment… versus full inpatient hospitalization during a time of alcoholism treatment. As …

… alcohol use on health care utilization, we should exclude smoking. Similarly, to the extent
that current alcohol use is … for the alcohol use variables are less than 1 for inpatient days (and …

… alcoholism programs that utilized a variety of inpatient and outpatient community resources.
Very little is known about any medical care utilization impact from other types of alcohol or …