Background: Alcohol abuse is a risk factor for serious illnesses, and a history of chronic
alcohol abuse adversely affects the outcome of critically ill patients. It is not known what …

Background and objective: Excessive alcohol consumption is a major cause for premature
death and preventable ill health in the whole population. We set out to audit admissions to …

Alcohol‐related disease adversely affects the outcome of critically ill patients. The burden of
this in Scotland is higher than elsewhere in the United Kingdom. In a prospective …

Excessive alcohol use is associated with increased health care utilisation and increased
mortality. This observational study sought to identify the proportion of patients admitted with …

Background Excessive alcohol consumption is ingrained in Irish society and is known to
have significant adverse health consequences, including adverse outcomes for critically ill …

Background The critical care environment has felt the overwhelming impact of the growing
problem of alcohol abuse. However, there is ambiguity concerning the assessment and …

Background: Annually, more than 300,000 patients receive mechanical ventilation in an
intensive care unit in the United States. The hospital mortality for ventilated patients may …

We investigated the impact of alcohol-related medical emergencies on health care utilization
in an inner city hospital medical intensive care unit (ICU). Data from 200 consecutive …

Objective: To determine the association between alcohol dependence (alcoholism not in
remission and/or alcohol withdrawal) and sepsis, septic shock, and hospital mortality among …

Background: The association between alcohol misuse and the need for intensive care unit
admission as well as hospital readmission among those discharged from the hospital …