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Drinking to toxicity: college students referred for emergency medical evaluation

Overview of attention for article published in Addiction Science & Clinical Practice, June 2016
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Title
Drinking to toxicity: college students referred for emergency medical evaluation
Published in
Addiction Science & Clinical Practice, June 2016
DOI 10.1186/s13722-016-0059-4
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Sigmund J. Kharasch, David R. McBride, Richard Saitz, Ward P. Myers

Abstract

In 2009, a university adopted a policy of emergency department transport of students appearing intoxicated on campus. The objective was to describe the change in ED referrals after policy initiation and describe a group of students at risk for acute alcohol-related morbidity. A retrospective cohort of university students during academic years 2007-2011 (September-June) transported to local ED's was evaluated. Data were compared 2 years prior to initiation of the policy and 3 years after and included total number of ED transports and blood or breath alcohol level. 971 Students were transported to local ED's. The mean number of yearly transports 2 years prior to policy initiation was 131 and 3 years after was 236 (56 % increase, p < 0.01). 92 % had a blood or breath alcohol level obtained. The mean alcohol level was 193 mg/dL. Twenty percent of students had alcohol levels greater than 250 mg/dL. Adoption of a university alcohol policy was followed by a significant increase in ED transports of intoxicated students. College students identified as intoxicated frequently drank to toxicity.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 20 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 5 25%
Student > Master 4 20%
Researcher 3 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 5%
Other 1 5%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 6 30%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 5 25%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 15%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 5%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 5%
Psychology 1 5%
Other 1 5%
Unknown 8 40%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 13 September 2016.
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#2,267,341
of 25,373,627 outputs
Outputs from Addiction Science & Clinical Practice
#76
of 487 outputs
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#39,429
of 354,664 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Addiction Science & Clinical Practice
#2
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