Bottoms Up!

                                                      

Drinking has become one of the most consumed drug in the United States. Many people will start drinking as young as thirteen or fourteen years old and most continue drinking, as they get older. Several adults will tend to have a drink occasionally after work or they will participate in social drinking, while others are being dragged into the addiction weather they realize it or not. As this article says, “it is well established that alcohol consumption is associated with an increased risk of injury (pg. 1).” Many know that alcohol can cause serious injuries, but continue to drink anyway. Throughout this article, it describes the injury risk affected by alcohol and it provides data to support the findings. The main focus on this article is found from emergency department as they went through their research. This reading is a systematic review and analysis that addresses informational issues that are caused by alcohol with injury results through studies on alcohol consumption and the differences between male and females.

In the emergency department literature, three main controlled studies have been brought up. The first is where both cases and controls are drawn from patients attending the same emergency departments during the same period of time. The second study is with the population case- control; the cases are collected from emergency department patients and controls from the general population. The last study is the case- crossover study, when the case also acts as the patient’s own control. Many of the patients that the researchers studied were likely to be frequent drinkers. On page 7, the article states, “While costly to conduct, population case– control studies would be the approach of choice in order to circumvent the methodological challenges discussed in this study, because this approach provides the most reliable estimates of alcohol consumption, yielding more stable risk estimates.” Through(all of the studies the researchers did on this article, they suggest that the population case study would be the most effective to learn about injuries cause by alcohol.

References

Zeisser, C. (2013). Alcoholism: Clinical and experimental research. A Systematic 

Review and Meta-Analysis of Alcohol Consumption and Injury Risk as a Function of Study Design and Recall Period. 37 (1-7). Doi: 10.11111/j.1530-0277.2012.01919

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