Alcohol
Volume 27, Issue 2 , Pages 83-88 , June 2002

A four-year follow-up study of male alcoholics: factors affecting the risk of readmission

  • Sari Ponzer

      Affiliations

    • Department of Orthopaedics, Karolinska Institutet at Stockholm Söder Hospital, SE-118 83 Stockholm, Sweden
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +46-8-616 2863; fax: +46-8-616 2804.(S. Ponzer). Editor: S. Borg
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  • Sven-Erik Johansson

      Affiliations

    • Department of Population and Welfare Statistics, Statistics Sweden, SE-11581 Stockholm, Sweden
    • ,
  • Bo Bergman

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Huddinge University Hospital, Huddinge, Sweden

Received 15 August 2000 ,Revised 7 January 2002 ,Accepted 10 January 2002.

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