Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research
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Alcohol. Clin. Exp. Res. · Jun 2010
Multicenter StudyThe relationship between self-reported drinking and BAC level in emergency room injury cases: is it a straight line?
While the validity of self-reported consumption based on blood alcohol concentration (BAC) has been found to be high in emergency room (ER) samples, little research exists on the estimated number of drinks consumed given a BAC level. Such data would be useful in establishing a dose-response relationship between drinking and risk (e.g., of injury) in those studies for which the number of drinks consumed is not available but BAC is. ⋯ Future studies may benefit from investigating the factors suspected to be driving the weak relationships between these measures, including the actual time over which the reported alcohol was consumed and pattern of drinking over the consumption period.