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Who came to Ontario emergency rooms (ER) for harmful use of alcohol and why?
Daniel T Myran et al. (2019) study gives us an excellent bird’s eye view of one aspect of Ontarians’ harmful use of alcohol: Their emergency room (ER) visits attributable to alcohol use. They have used administrative data available from 2003 to 2016: 13 years. The following are my key takeaways….
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Harmful use of alcohol in Simcoe Muskoka
Simcoe Muskoka’s “HealthSTATS” is a treasure trove of evidence; however, I focus here only on one aspect of the harmful use of alcohol: “Hospital stays entirely caused by alcohol”. I chose this metric to make my arguments powerful and compelling to persuade readers to ask more questions and act. The…