[Morbidity of alcoholic employees. Examples from 2 public facilities in Switzerland]

Morbidity of of alcoholic employees. Results of a case/control study on 2 samples of civil servants. The data of this retrospective study were obtained mainly from files kept at the centralized medical service. The observation period was 10 years. The alcoholics (n = 64) lost in the average 19.3 or 16.1 days more per year through sickness absence and they spent considerably more days in hospitals than their control groups. Significant differences occurred also concerning frequences of medical diagnoses.