RESUMO
In a retrospective study conducted from 1985 to 1990, the cause of hospitalization and associated pathology of 221 chronic ethylics were investigated. The most frequent cause of hospitalization was neuropsychiatric, followed by digestive pathology. With respect to the most frequent associated pathology, it was mainly digestive, causing multiple hospitalizations in most of the patients. The respiratory, cardiocirculatory and endocrine-metabolic pathologies followed in the frequency rank in these patients, as well as the traumatisms resulting from the ebrietas condition. We also observed gynecological and neonatal pathologies among the alcoholic women. The association of alcohol, tobacco and analgesics and psychodrugs consumption deserves also to be mentioned.
Assuntos
Alcoolismo/terapia , Hospitais Universitários , Admissão do Paciente , Adulto , Alcoolismo/complicações , Alcoolismo/epidemiologia , Feminino , Hospitais Universitários/estatística & dados numéricos , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Admissão do Paciente/estatística & dados numéricos , Distribuição Aleatória , Estudos Retrospectivos , Espanha/epidemiologia , Transtornos Relacionados ao Uso de Substâncias/epidemiologiaRESUMO
This work offers the results of a retrospective study carried out on 856 patients diagnosed as suffering from alcoholism and/or other alcohol-related illnesses over 120456 who were admitted at the Granada University Hospital over the period 1985-1990. The patients have been classified in a distribution according to various factors, including age, sex, place of residence, profession and hospital admittance and discharge procedure. We have also taken into account both annual and accumulated incidence, as well as the distribution of those patients in the different hospital services and the evolution of the global average hospital stay. We then offer a study contrasting our results with other national and international studies, taking into account elements such as conceptual diversity and similarities and differences in methodology.