Number of patients in the hospital discharge register in 1991–1996 with an alcohol related primary diagnosis, median length of hospital stay (LOS) in days, deaths during the follow up from discharge to the end of 1997, and their proportion of the patients by type of diagnosis*
| Diagnosis | Men | Women | All | Deaths | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | Number | Number | Median LOS (days) | |||
| *Different categories of diagnoses may include same persons, and hence their sum is larger than the total. Only first admissions in the study period are included in the table. | ||||||
| Alcohol psychoses | 12955 | 2571 | 15526 | 5 | 2165 | 14 |
| Alcohol dependence syndrome | 19951 | 4095 | 24046 | 4 | 4001 | 17 |
| Alcohol intoxication | 12833 | 3151 | 15984 | 3 | 2456 | 15 |
| Alcoholic diseases of the liver | 3679 | 1169 | 4848 | 10 | 2371 | 49 |
| Alcoholic diseases of the pancreas | 5951 | 1010 | 6961 | 6 | 997 | 14 |
| Other alcohol related | 2390 | 366 | 2756 | 4 | 554 | 20 |
| Any alcohol related diagnosis | 43132 | 9842 | 52974 | 5 | 9735 | 18 |