Table 2.
Descriptive information of samples and attendances
| Retrospective* (n=5121) | Prospective† (n=4752) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not alcohol related (n (%)) | Alcohol ingested (n (%)) | Not alcohol related (n (%)) | Alcohol related (n (%)) | |
| Sample | ||||
| All | 4485 (87.6) | 636 (12.4) | 4032 (84.8) | 720 (15.2) |
| Gender | ||||
| Male | 2220 (83.5) | 439 (16.5) | 1847 (81.0) | 432 (19.0) |
| Female | 2263 (92.0) | 197 (8.0) | 1854 (89.8) | 210 (10.2) |
| Missing* | 2 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 331 (8.2) | 78 (10.8) |
| Age (years) | ||||
| 18–24 | 961 (80.6) | 231 (19.4) | 784 (79.9) | 197 (20.1) |
| 25–44 | 1461 (85.2) | 254 (14.8) | 1022 (83.8) | 197 (16.2) |
| 45–64 | 976 (89.5) | 114 (10.5) | 760 (88.6) | 98 (11.4) |
| 65+ | 1032 (97.2) | 30 (2.8) | 611 (96.7) | 21 (3.3) |
| Missing* | 55 (1.2) | 7 (1.1) | 855 (21.2) | 207 (28.8) |
| Area | ||||
| NE postcode | 4125 (88.9) | 517 (11.1) | 2946 (87.7) | 412 (12.3) |
| Other postcode | 345 (74.8) | 116 (25.2) | 177 (73.4) | 64 (26.6) |
| Missing* | 15 (0.3) | 3 (0.5) | 909 (2.2) | 244 (33.9) |
| Attendances | ||||
| Day of week | ||||
| Monday | 717 (91.5) | 67 (8.5) | 600 (91.6) | 55 (8.4) |
| Tuesday | 605 (89.4) | 72 (10.6) | 548 (89.7) | 63 (10.3) |
| Wednesday | 566 (91.1) | 55 (8.9) | 584 (87.0) | 87 (13.0) |
| Thursday | 624 (89.5) | 73 (10.5) | 549 (89.3) | 66 (10.7) |
| Friday | 648 (87.2) | 95 (12.8) | 475 (83.0) | 97 (17.0) |
| Saturday | 646 (82.6) | 136 (17.4) | 603 (76.1) | 189 (23.9) |
| Sunday | 679 (83.1) | 138 (16.9) | 665 (80.3) | 163 (19.7) |
| Missing* | – | – | 8 (0.2) | 0 (0.0) |
| Time of day | ||||
| Midnight–5:59 | 526 (64.5) | 289 (35.5) | 390 (52.3) | 356 (47.7) |
| 6:00–11:59 | 1167 (95.0) | 63 (5.1) | 1062 (94.3) | 64 (5.7) |
| Noon–17:59 | 1612 (94.2) | 100 (5.9) | 1529 (94.9) | 82 (5.1) |
| 18:00–23:59 | 1180 (86.5) | 184 (13.5) | 964 (82.8) | 200 (17.2) |
| Missing* | – | – | 87 (1.8) | 18 (0.4) |
| Week of year | ||||
| 2–8 July | 839 (87.3) | 122 (12.7) | 555 (84.6) | 101 (15.4) |
| 8–14 October | 902 (85.2) | 157 (14.8) | 1148 (83.9) | 220 (16.1) |
| 17–23 December | 1293 (88.3) | 171 (11.7) | 1112 (85.7) | 186 (14.3) |
| 25 February–3 March | 1451 (88.6) | 186 (11.4) | 1217 (85.1) | 213 (14.9) |
| Reason for attendance‡ | ||||
| Fall | 50 (84.8) | 9 (15.3) | 148 (82.7) | 31 (17.3) |
| Collapse (including fits) | 199 (82.2) | 43 (17.8) | 128 (88.9) | 16 (11.1) |
| Head injury | 119 (68.9) | 55 (31.6) | 67 (62.6) | 40 (37.4) |
| Assault | 29 (46.0) | 34 (54.0) | 22 (31.4) | 48 (68.6) |
| Accident | 1025 (90.1) | 113 (9.9) | 956 (87.7) | 134 (12.3) |
| Unwell | 143 (94.1) | 9 (5.9) | 44 (97.8) | 1 (2.2) |
| Gastrointestinal | 351 (93.9) | 23 (6.2) | 272 (91.3) | 26 (8.7) |
| Psychiatric | 89 (58.6) | 63 (41.5) | 63 (50.8) | 61 (49.2) |
| Cardiac (including chest pain) | 320 (96.7) | 11 (3.3) | 257 (96.6) | 9 (3.4) |
| Repeat attender§ | Unknown | Not included | Unknown | Unknown |
| Intoxication¶ | 6 (4.0) | 144 (96.0) | 4 (4.4) | 88 (95.6) |
| Other | 1662 (97.6) | 41 (2.4) | 1161 (95.5) | 55 (4.5) |
| Missing* | 492 (9.6) | 91 (1.8) | 910 (19.1) | 211 (4.4) |
*As a percentage of total presentations.
†As a percentage of data available.
‡According to the Paddington Alcohol Test.
§Repeat attender category not captured in these datasets.
¶Intoxication code included due to use of the Paddington Alcohol Test outside its original purpose.