Alcohol Consumption and Utilization of Health Services in a Health Maintenance Organization
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| ID | 9104073 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Mary Anne Armstrong (0000-0002-6521-5729, Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center, autor correspondente), Lorraine T Midanik (Kaiser Permanente, autor correspondente), Arthur L Klatsky (Kaiser Permanente, autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 1998 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Fascículo | 11 |
| Páginas | 1599-1605 |
| Data de publicação | 1998-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Não |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Medical Care (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0025-7079 • E-ISSN: 1537-1948 |
| Editora | Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1097/00005650-199811000-00009 |
| PMID | 9821947 |
| OpenAlex | W2319005670 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 12 |
| Referências citadas | 33 |
OBJECTIVES: This study examined the relation between alcohol use and utilization of health services during a 3-year period in a sample of 4,264 adult respondents to a member health survey in a health maintenance organization. METHODS: Respondents were categorized as abstainers (no drinks in the past year, n = 1,139), lighter drinkers (less than seven drinks/week, n = 2,330), moderate drinkers (seven to 13 drinks/week, n = 498), and heavier drinkers (> or =14 drinks/week, n = 297). Each drinker group was compared with abstainers on outpatient visits, hospital days, and number of hospitalizations controlling for age, race, and health plan membership. RESULTS: The mean number of outpatient visits was inversely related to the amount of alcohol consumed. Significant differences also were found for mean number of hospitalizations and mean days hospitalized per year. Compared with the three drinker groups, abstainers were significantly higher on both inpatient measures. CONCLUSIONS: These results might be explained by the inclusion in the abstainer group of exdrinkers who quit because of illness, inattention to health problems by heavier drinkers, or lower rates of illness among drinkers. The findings underscore the importance of replicating our study in other cohorts in which problem drinkers can be identified and compared with non-problem drinkers and in which lifelong abstainers can be separated from exdrinkers in the analysis
Alcohol · Alcohol consumption · Health care · Health maintenance · Health plan · Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects · Demography · Medicine · Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes · Workplace Health and Well-being · Gerontology
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| Obras citantes distintas | 12 |
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| Citações por ano | 0,48 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2001 - 2023 (23) |
| Velocidade de citação | historical |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 11 |