Admission to Acute Care Hospitals for Adolescent Substance Abuse: a National Descriptive Analysis
July 10, 2006 Admission to Acute Care Hospitals for Adolescent Substance Abuse: a National Descriptive Analysis The researchers sought to describe the extent and nature of adolescent admissions to the acute inpatient setting for substance abuse. The researchers reviewed data from the year 2000 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 2000 Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Kids Inpatient Database. Data for the year 2000s over 2.5 million youth admissions was reported by 2,784 hospitals in 27 states. The researchers evaluated frequency and percentage of total admissions for demographic and hospital characteristics for two diagnostic categories: alcohol . . .
