The Royal College of Physicians report on alcohol: guidelines for managing Wernicke's encephalopathy in the accident and emergency department

AD Thomson, CCH Cook, R Touquet… - Alcohol and …, 2002 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Royal College of Physicians (London) recently published its latest report on
alcohol misuse entitled 'Alcohol—Can the NHS Afford It?'. Part of this document …

Screening and referral for brief intervention of alcohol-misusing patients in an emergency department: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial

MJ Crawford, R Patton, R Touquet, C Drummond… - The Lancet, 2004 - thelancet.com
Background Alcohol misuse is highly prevalent among people attending emergency
departments, but the effect of intervention by staff working in these departments is unclear …

[HTML][HTML] The effectiveness of alcohol screening and brief intervention in emergency departments: a multicentre pragmatic cluster randomized controlled trial

C Drummond, P Deluca, S Coulton, M Bland… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Background Alcohol misuse is common in people attending emergency departments (EDs)
and there is some evidence of efficacy of alcohol screening and brief interventions (SBI) …

The half-life of the 'teachable moment'for alcohol misusing patients in the emergency department

S Williams, A Brown, R Patton, MJ Crawford… - Drug and alcohol …, 2005 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND:: To determine whether the length of time between alcohol-related
attendance in the emergency department (ED) and follow-up appointment with an alcohol …

Cost-effectiveness of screening and referral to an alcohol health worker in alcohol misusing patients attending an accident and emergency department: a decision …

B Barrett, S Byford, MJ Crawford, R Patton… - Drug and alcohol …, 2006 - Elsevier
We present the cost and cost-effectiveness of referral to an alcohol health worker (AHW) and
information only control in alcohol misusing patients. The study was a pragmatic randomised …

Primary care in London: an evaluation of general practitioners working in an inner city accident and emergency department.

P Ward, J Huddy, S Hargreaves, R Touquet… - Emergency Medicine …, 1996 - emj.bmj.com
OBJECTIVE: To determine the characteristics of primary care attenders to St Mary's Hospital
accident and emergency (A&E) department, evaluate the effects of the introduction of …

Recent Advances: Teaching in accident and emergency medicine: 10 commandments of accident and emergency radiology

R Touquet, P Driscoll, D Nicholson - BMJ, 1995 - bmj.com
One of the many attractions of accident and emergency medicine is the wide and varied
opportunities it provides for education. This is because of the acute nature of the work, which …

The effect of the fast of Ramadan on accident and emergency attendances

EJ Langford, MA Ishaque… - Journal of the Royal …, 1994 - journals.sagepub.com
Methods and results Approximately 55 000 new patients are treated in our department each
year and each attendance is documented on our computer system. All patients have …

The Paddington alcohol test: a short report

R Patton, C Hilton, MJ Crawford… - Alcohol and …, 2004 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Paddington Alcohol Test, designed to screen for alcohol related problems
amongst those attending Accident and Emergency Departments, is presented in a slightly …

[BOOK][B] ABC of Alcohol

A Paton, R Touquet - 2009 - books.google.com
Although doctors are mainly concerned with the physical orpsychological problems of
individual drinkers, the wider socialconsequences of alcohol misuse are just as important …