MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 1992 Oct 16;41(41):757-60.
Alcohol use is directly responsible for hospitalizations resulting from chronic conditions, such as alcoholic liver disease and alcoholic psychoses; in addition, alcohol use can be a contributing factor in other conditions, such as infectious diseases and injuries, that require hospital admission. Based on discharge data from Indian Health Service (IHS) facilities and CDC's National Hospital Discharge Survey (1), the proportion of alcohol-related hospitalizations (ARHs) among American Indians/Alaskan Natives has been reported as 2.5 times that for the total U.S. population. However, these estimates rely on a limited set of alcohol-defined diagnoses that are primarily associated with chronic alcoholism. To characterize more accurately the relation of alcohol use to inpatient admissions to IHS and tribally operated hospitals in the United States, IHS conducted a 1-day survey of ARHs in these facilities on Monday, May 18, 1992. This report summarizes preliminary results from the survey.
饮酒直接导致因慢性疾病（如酒精性肝病和酒精性精神病）而住院的情况；此外，饮酒可能是导致其他需要住院治疗的疾病（如传染病和受伤）的一个促成因素。根据印第安卫生服务局（IHS）医疗机构的出院数据以及美国疾病控制与预防中心（CDC）的全国医院出院调查（1），据报告，美国印第安人/阿拉斯加原住民中与酒精相关的住院病例（ARH）比例是美国总人口的2.5倍。然而，这些估计仅基于一组有限的、主要与慢性酒精中毒相关的酒精定义诊断。为了更准确地描述饮酒与美国IHS及部落运营医院住院情况之间的关系，IHS于1992年5月18日星期一在这些机构对ARH进行了为期1天的调查。本报告总结了该调查的初步结果。
