Nace E P
Timberlawn Psychiatric Hospital, Dallas, TX.
Psychiatr Hosp. 1990 Winter;21(1):9-12.
Recent reviews of alcoholism treatment have argued strongly against the efficacy of inpatient treatment for alcoholic patients. This paper briefly considers the findings those reviews were based on and highlights some of the flaws that have led to the conclusion that inpatient treatment for alcoholism is unsuccessful and unnecessary. This paper suggests that the negative reports about inpatient treatment are biased and argues for the effectiveness of inpatient treatment, especially for patients with severe alcohol dependence or extensive social, psychiatric, or medical comorbidity.
近期对酒精中毒治疗的综述强烈反对对酒精中毒患者进行住院治疗的疗效。本文简要探讨了这些综述所依据的研究结果,并强调了一些导致得出酒精中毒住院治疗不成功且不必要这一结论的缺陷。本文表明,关于住院治疗的负面报告存在偏差,并主张住院治疗的有效性,特别是对于严重酒精依赖或伴有广泛社会、精神或医疗合并症的患者。