Disability one year after head injury

doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.1021/a

BMJ 2000;321:1021 ( 21 October )

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Disability one year after head injury

Role of alcohol needs to be examined

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Role of alcohol needs to be examined

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EDITOR $---$ Thornhill et al in their paper on disability in young people and adults after head injury show again the extent towhich alcohol misuse contributes to head injury.¹ Sixty-nineper cent described alcohol as being involved or suspected in thehistory, and in 39% drinking was excessive or requiringtreatment.

In the follow up at one year there is no evidence of any advice or treatment for alcohol misuse received after the head injury.Alcohol misuse may well have had contributed significantly tothe poor outcome of rehabilitation at the end of one year. Ithas been shown in a general hospital that even a single sessionof alcohol counselling from a nurse, for up to an hour, producedappreciable health benefits at the close of a year.² Severalcomparable studies have shown similar outcomes, but the numberof interventions of this kind in general hospitals in the . . . [Full text of this article]

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