Hospital‐Admitted Injury Attributable to Alcohol

Background: Primary data collection has established that alcohol causes injuries treated in the emergency department. No comparable data exist for injuries admitted to hospital. Data on the injury risks of heavy drinkers relative to other drinkers also are sparse. Methods: We estimated (i) whether regular heavy drinkers have higher hospitalized injury risks than other people when alcohol‐negative and (ii) how much hospitalized injury risk of...