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introduction: patients with alcoholism and alcohol withdrawal syndrome (aws) have a worse prognostic. methods: we have performed a retrospective analysis of the hospital discharges in with diagnosis include aws from 1 of january of 1997 to the 31 of december of 2002. results: we identified 924 hospital stays with 2.4% of mortality (1.6% in internal medicine). mortality is associated with greater age (57 years ㊣15 vs. 49㊣ 13, p %26lt; 0.005), with the diagnostic of hepatic cirrhosis (6.2 vs. 1.8%, p %26lt; 0.005), bacteraemia (10 vs. 1.8%, p %26lt; 0.001) and respiratory infection (9.6 vs. 1.8%, p %26lt; 0,001), with a lower mortality when aws was secondary diagnosis (1.2 vs. 4.2%, p %26lt; 0.005). in multivariant analysis were associated with more mortality age (or 1.03), hepatic cirrhosis (or 3.4), bacteriemia (or 4.5) and respiratory infection (or 3.6). conclusion: alcohol withdrawal syndrome mortality could to benefit from treatment in an internal medicine service.
