Table 5.

Sensitivity Analysis on Relative Risk of Hospitalized Injury by Whether Alcohol-Positive, Type of Injury, and Drinker Class

	Alcohol-Positive	Alcohol-Negative
ANY INJURY
Regular heavy drinker	2.03-9.30	0.94-3.27
Other person age 18 and over	3.81-12.10	1.00
BURN
Regular heavy drinker	1.33-4.27	0.63-1.54
Other person age 18 and over	2.88-4.26	1.00
SPINAL CORD INJURY
Regular heavy drinker	2.46-7.96	1.16-2.90
Other person age 18 and over	12.69-18.78	1.00

Note: Estimated using equations 1 and 3 with 25%-30% of injuries alcohol-involved; 56.7%-62% of heavy drinkers’ injuries alcohol-involved; relative risk of injury for regular heavy drinkers versus other people ranging from 1.67 to 2.56 (1.2 to 1.4 for burns, 1.63 to 1.93 for spinal cord injury); 50%, 53%, or 60% of the alcohol consumed by the 9% of people 18 and over who are regular heavy drinkers or 47.5% consumed by 6.2% or 68% consumed by 10% or 67% consumed by 11%; and metabolism rates of 0.45 to 0.9 ounces of absolute ethanol per hour for regular heavy drinkers and 0.45 ounces per hour for other drinkers. Boundary conditions applied to the values from Table 4 forced the relative risk of alcohol-negative heavy drinkers to equal 1.0 or equal their alcohol-positive risk.