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Alcohol-related emergency department visits associated with collegiate football games
Janice Shook1, Brian C Hiestand
1Department of Emergency Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
Objective:
In 2003, after several post-college football game riots, multiple strategies including strict enforcement of open container laws were instituted by the authors' city and university. The authors compared alcohol-related visits to the on-campus emergency department (ED) associated with home football games in 2002 and 2006, hypothesizing that alcohol-related visits should decline.
Participants:
ED patients during home game weekends.
Methods:
Retrospective cohort study comparing the 2002 and 2006 home games-similar seasons wherein the team went undefeated. Logistic regression assessed the impact of environmental and patient characteristics on the likelihood of an ED visit being alcohol related.
Results:
In total 2,220 visits in 2002 and 2,146 visits in 2006 were reviewed. Alcohol-related visits increased from 2002 (7.9%) to 2006 (9.5%, p = .06). Despite community interventions, the odds of an ED visit being alcohol related increased (odds ratio [OR] 1.3, 95% confidence interval [CI₉₅] 1.06-1.64).
Conclusions:
Community measures did not reduce alcohol-related visits to the ED.
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