Relationship of gender to characteristics of patients referred to a Rural Wisconsin Addiction Treatment Unit.

The records of admissions to the inpatient unit of a Rural Wisconsin Addiction Treatment Unit were reviewed, in 1995, for the prior four years (January 1, 1990 through December 31, 1993). After approval by the Institutional Review Board of the Marshfield Medical Research Foundation, the combined medical records were abstracted for presenting information related to social, psychological and medical components. During the four years of observation, there were 821 unique admissions of which 555 (67.