Associations between alcohol related hospital admissions and alcohol consumption in Victoria: Influence of socio-demographic factors

Jonas, Helen A.; Dietze, Paul; Rumbold, Greg; Hanlin, Kirsten; Cvetkovski, Stefan; Laslett, Anne‐Marie

doi:10.1111/j.1467-842x.1999.tb01255.x

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“…One example is a study from Australia in which positive co-variation was established between per capita consumption and an index of alcohol-related hospital admission rates [33]. On the basis of a simple correlation analysis of data for the period 1970 -2000, a positive temporal co-variation between alcohol consumption and morbidity from alcoholism and alcohol psychosis was also obtained for Belarus [34].…”

Section: Liver Cirrhosis and Alcohol-related Diseasesmentioning

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Mortality and population drinking: a review of the literature

Norström

Ramstedt

2005

Drug and Alcohol Review

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The aim of this review was to review research addressing the relationship between population drinking and health, particularly mortality. The review is based primarily on articles published in international journals after 1994 to February 2005, identified via Medline. The method used in most studies is time-series analysis based on autoregressive intergrated moving average (ARIMA) modelling. The outcome measures covered included the following mortality indicators: mortality from liver cirrhosis and other alcohol-related diseases, accident mortality, suicide, homicide, ischaemic heart disease (IHD) mortality and all-cause mortality. The study countries included most of the EU member states as of 1995 (14 countries), Canada and the United States. For Eastern Europe there was only scanty evidence. The study period was in most cases the post-war period. There was a statistically significant relationship between per capita consumption and mortality from liver cirrhosis and other alcohol-related diseases in all countries. In about half the countries, there was a significant relationship between consumption, on one hand, and mortality from accidents and homicide as well as all-cause mortality on the other hand. A link between alcohol and suicide was found in all regions except for mid- and southern Europe. There was no systematic link between consumption and IHD mortality. Overall, a 1-litre increase in per capita consumption was associated with a stronger effect in northern Europe and Canada than in mid- and southern Europe. Research during the past decade has strengthened the notion of a relationship between population drinking and alcohol-related harm. At the same time, the marked regional variation in the magnitude of this relationship suggests the importance of drinking patterns for modifying the impact of alcohol. By and large, there was little evidence for any cardioprotective effect at the population level. It is a challenge for future research to reconcile this outcome with the findings from observational studies, most of which suggest a protective effect of moderate drinking.

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Section: Liver Cirrhosis and Alcohol-related Diseasesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mortality and population drinking: a review of the literature

Norström

Ramstedt

2005

Drug and Alcohol Review

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161

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“…For example, reports from the National Hospital Discharge Survey found that older adults have more alcohol-related medical problems as compared with their younger counterparts (65.1 vs. 60.4 per 10,000 population; Stinson, Dufour, & Bertolucci, 1989 Adams et al (1993) reported a prevalence rate of 48.2 hospitalizations per 10,000 Medicare beneficiaries. A similar study conducted by Jonas et al (1999) found that annual alcohol-related hospital admission rates ranged from 8 to 37 per 10,000 residents.…”

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Resource use of elderly emergency department patients with alcohol-related diagnoses

Saleh

Szebenyi

2005

Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment

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“…11,6 This method found currency among researchers and many works have followed the lead set by English et al, 6 including several recent publications. 2,4,32 However, new work by the AIHW, in particular, has recently recharged the debate about whether an abstinence-based contrast is in fact preferable to a low level of consumption comparison. For instance, in their publication Burden of Disease and Injury in Australia, Mathers and colleagues 5 separately estimated the 'benefits' of an y alcohol consumption (i.e.…”

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Towards a standardised methodology for estimating alcohol‐caused death, injury and illness in Australia

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Stockwell²,

Jonas

et al. 2002

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

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Two key methodological issues underlying different methods for calculating estimates of the number of alcohol‐caused deaths are identified and recommendations suggested for future work. 1. How to adjust alcohol aetiologic fractions across time and place to reflect different levels of risky drinking. A common approach is outlined for both acute and chronic alcohol‐related conditions. In the absence of consistent, reliable and regionally specific measures of the prevalence of risky alcohol consumption from national surveys, the use of per capita consumption data as a means of adjusting alcohol population aetiologic fractions over time and across regions is recommended. 2. Whether abstainers or low‐risk drinkers should be used as the reference group when assessing the impact of alcohol consumption and how the resulting information is best presented. It is recommended that when abstainers are used as the reference group, the costs and benefits for both‘low‐risk’ and ‘risky/high‐risk’ drinking should be identified. Using this approach, it was estimated that for Australia in 1998 there was a net benefit of 5,100 lives saved due to low‐risk drinking, while there was a net loss of 2,737 lives due to risky/high‐risk drinking. On its own, the figure of a net saving of 2,363 lives per year is a simplistic and potentially misleading picture of alcohol as a net benefit to public health and safety. For public health communications, there is still value in providing estimates using the low‐risk drinking contrast, of the number of lives saved if risky/high‐risk drinkers all became low‐risk drinkers (n=3,292 in 1998). The use of the abstinence contrast, however, allows the more complex picture of alcohol's impact on public health to be apparent, e.g. including the estimated 1,505 deaths associated with low‐risk drinking (mostly from cancer).

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Associations between alcohol related hospital admissions and alcohol consumption in Victoria: Influence of socio-demographic factors

Cited by 24 publications

References 18 publications

Mortality and population drinking: a review of the literature

Mortality and population drinking: a review of the literature

Resource use of elderly emergency department patients with alcohol-related diagnoses

Towards a standardised methodology for estimating alcohol‐caused death, injury and illness in Australia

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