[Emergency treatment of alcoholics. Review of the admissions and readmissions to a psychiatric department with regard to the features of the group].

A retrospective investigation revealed 107 patients (29 women and 78 men) with the diagnosis of alcoholism who were admitted to the County Hospital in Vordingborg during a period of six months. Readmissions of these patients during the subsequent two years were registered. The object of the investigation was to characterize these patients as regards the mental and social conditions, as it was our impression that these conditions were of significance in the referral for treatment in the psychiatric department.