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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Nov 5.
Published in final edited form as: Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2009 Jul 23;33(10):1777–1781. doi: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2009.01016.x

Table 3.

Frequency of composite morbidity score by CDT and/or BAL level

CDT ≤
2.5
CDT >
2.5
BAL = 0 BAL > 0.01 0 BAL and
CDT <2.6
= BAL or
CDT >2.5
Total
N=182 N=31 N=164 N=49 N=148 N=65 N=213
Composite
Morbidity
trauma score
N % N % N % N % N % N % N %
0 84 (46 %) 15 (48 %) 84 (51 %) 15 (31 %) 75 (51 %) 24 (37 %) 99 (46 %)
1-2 73 (40 %) 8 (26 %) 60 (36 %) 21 (43 %) 57 (39 %) 24 (37 %) 81 (38 %)
3-4 15 (8 % ) 5 (16 %) 12 (7 %) 8 (16 %) 9 (6 %) 11 (17 %) 20 (18 %)
5 or more 10 (6 % ) 3 (10 %) 8 (5 %) 5 (10 %) 7 (5 %) 6 (9 %) 13 (6 %)

The composite morbidity trauma score is made up of the 25 adverse health events listed in table 4 with the exception of alcohol withdrawal and a GCS score of 6 or more. Each event has an equal score of one with the potential score ranging from 0-25.

CDT – carbohydrate deficient transferrin

BAL – Blood alcohol level