Phosphatidylethanol measures in patients with severe COVID‐19‐associated respiratory failure identify a subset with alcohol misuse
Raymond Pomponio,
Ryan A. Peterson,
Moses Owusu
et al.
Abstract:BackgroundClinical trials in patients with COVID‐19 have exclusively used self‐ or proxy‐reporting to characterize alcohol consumption. The aim of this study was to measure an objective biomarker of recent alcohol use in patients hospitalized with severe COVID‐19‐associated respiratory failure who were enrolled in an investigational clinical trial to determine the prevalence of alcohol misuse, and to explore the relationship of alcohol use with outcomes.MethodsWe conducted a substudy of patients enrolled in th… Show more
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