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Blood alcohol levels in acute elderly admissions to hospital
N D Penn1, O J Corrado, L J Pitchfork
1Department of Medicine, St James's University Hospital, Leeds, UK.
Postgraduate Medical Journal
|January 1, 1989
Abstract:
Blood alcohol levels were estimated in 141 patients admitted acutely over a one month period to a geriatric unit. Only four (2.8%) had alcohol detectable in their blood. The levels were low, suggesting that alcohol intoxication is not a major factor in the admission of the elderly to hospital.