Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 26, Issue 2 , Pages 167-176 , August 1995

Alcohol Use Before and After Traumatic Head Injury

Received 14 March 1994 ,Revised 6 February 1995 ,Accepted 15 February 1995.

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☆ From the Departments of Rehabilitation Medicine*, Neurological Surgery‡, Biostatistics§ and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciencesn–and the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.

☆☆ This study was supported by grants HS04146, HS05304, and HS06497 from the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research; by grant H133B80081 from the National Institute of Disability and Rehabilitation Research; and by grant NS 19643 from the National Institutes of Health.

★ Address for reprints: Sureyya Dikmen, PhD, Rehabilitation Medicine, Box 356490, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, 206-685-7529, Fax 206-685-3244

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