Australasian College for Emergency Medicine research found that as at 11pm on Tuesday,15% of patients in 100 emergency departments were there because of alcoholOne in seven patients entering hospital emergency departments on Australia Day were there because of alcohol-related harm, research by the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine has found.
The largest snapshot survey of its kind undertaken in Australia and the first to investigate the relationship between alcohol-related harm and Australia Day, or it found that as of 11pm on Tuesday,15% of patients across 100 emergency departments were there because of alcohol.
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Source: theguardian.com