@article{ref1,
title="Alcohol and violence in the emergency department: a regional report from the WHO collaborative study on alcohol and injuries",
journal="Salud publica de Mexico",
year="2008",
author="Orozco, Ricardo and Borges, Guilherme L. G. and Poznyak, Vladimir and Cherpitel, C. and Buzi-Figlie, Neliana and Cremonte, Mariana",
volume="50",
number="Suppl 1",
pages="S6-11",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: To determine the relative risk (RR) of non-fatal unintentional and violence-related injury associated with alcohol consumption in three emergency departments in Latin America (2001-2002). MATERIAL AND METHODS: Pair-matched case-crossover was used to obtain RR estimates for alcohol in non-fatal injuries among 447 patients in Argentina (A), 489 in Brazil (B) and 455 in Mexico (M). Intentional (violence) or unintentional (non-violence) injury status were the main outcomes. RESULTS: About 46% of violence-related cases involved alcohol (versus 11.5% for non-violence related cases). The risk of violence-related injury increased with drinking and had an OR= 15.0 (95% confidence interval (CI), 5.8-39.1), with an OR= 4.2 (CI= 2.7-6.5) for unintentional injuries. CONCLUSIONS: Increasing amounts of drinking may have pronounced consequences on the risk of triggering an injury, especially for a violence-related injury. The RR estimates provided here can be useful for new estimates on alcohol and the burden of disease.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0036-3634",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}