Changes in number of visits to the emergency department attributable to alcohol use by diagnostic codes, 2003–2016
| ICD-10 code* | No. of visits | Absolute % increase† | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All years | 2003 | 2016 | ||
| Mental health harms | ||||
| Acute intoxication (F100) | 363 566 | 18 341 | 34 276 | 86.9 |
| Harmful use (F101) | 174 942 | 9376 | 17 979 | 91.8 |
| Alcohol dependence (F102) | 89 118 | 6496 | 6737 | 3.7 |
| Alcohol withdrawal (F103, F104) | 93 332 | 4282 | 11 010 | 178.2 |
| Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of alcohol, other, i.e., psychosis, amnesic syndrome (F105–F109) | 8846 | 380 | 1313 | 245.5 |
| Medical harms | ||||
| Alcoholic liver disease (K700–K704, K709) | 23 192 | 1063 | 2,452 | 130.7 |
| Alcoholic gastritis (K292) | 11 799 | 771 | 976 | 26.6 |
| Accidental or intentional poisoning by alcohol (X45, Y15, X65) | 21 532 | 1187 | 1898 | 59.9 |
| Other medical conditions due to alcohol, i.e., alcohol induced: acute pancreatitis, neuropathy, cardiomyopathy (G312, G621, G721, I426, K852, K860, E244, T510, T519, R780) | 28 618 | 1753 | 2775 | 58.3 |
| Maternal care for (suspected) damage to fetus from alcohol/Fetal alcohol syndrome (Q99304, Q99305, Q860, P043) | 878 | 6 | 134 | 2133.3 |
| Total | 815 823‡ | 43 655 | 79 550 | 82.2 |
Note: ICD-10 = International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision.
↵* See Appendix 1, Supplementary Table 1 (available at www.cmaj.ca/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1503/cmaj.181575/-/DC1) for the full description of the ICD-10 codes in the indicator.
↵† See Appendix 1, Supplementary Table 2 for an analysis of the annual percentage increase in rates of ICD-10 codes accounting for changes in population demographics.
↵‡ Total number of codes exceeds the total number of emergency department visits because some visits were considered to be caused by more than 1 alcohol-related harm and therefore were assigned more than 1 ICD-10 code.