Standardising the management of alcohol withdrawal at an NHS district general hospital
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Tina Maheswaran; Kathleen Turner; Katherine Dodd
- Source
- Subject
- medicine.medical_specialty
Evidence-Based Medicine
business.industry
MEDLINE
Alcoholism therapy
General Medicine
Evidence-based medicine
Hospitals, District
Hospitals, General
United Kingdom
Substance Withdrawal Syndrome
Clinical
Alcoholism
Consistency (negotiation)
Multidisciplinary approach
Family medicine
Practice Guidelines as Topic
Medicine
Humans
General hospital
business
Psychiatry
health care economics and organizations
- Language
- English
A lack of consistency in the management of alcohol withdrawal was identified at the trust. A multidisciplinary working group was set up to review the existing policies, and evaluate the evidence available. A trust-wide policy was introduced and the Clinical Institute Withdrawal from Alcohol score