Healio (3/3, Gramigna) reports researchers found that “alcohol withdrawal rates have increased among hospitalized patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.” The findings were published in a research letter in JAMA Network Open.
MedPage Today (3/3, Grant) reports the researchers found that “compared with 2019, rates of alcohol withdrawal increased by nearly 34% during March-September 2020.” In addition, “the rate of alcohol withdrawal was consistently higher in 2020 compared with both 2019 and the average of 2018 and 2019, although the difference was larger in the period after the stay-at-home order.”
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— “COVID-19 pandemic linked to increase in alcohol withdrawal rates for hospitalized patients “Joe Gramigna, Healio , March 3, 2021