Older adults in treatment for alcohol use disorders: service utilisation, patient characteristics and treatment outcomes

Table 3 Treatment-related characteristics and treatment outcomes by age, gender and early- or late-onset for patients in outpatient and inpatient treatment

	Outpatient treatment						Inpatient treatment
	≤59^a	60 +	60 + male	60 + female	60 + early^b	60+ late^b	≤59^a	60 +	60 + male	60 + female	60 + early^b	60+ late^c
First treatment (%)	33.1	31.0	32.3	28.9	25.4	36.7	9.8	8.5	9.0	7.3	8.4	9.9
Referral from (%)
Self	39.8	40.1	39.7	40.8	43.9	36.6	1.8	2.9	2.7	3.2	2.0	4.1
Family	7.1	11.9	10.9	13.9	10.4	13.5	1.3	1.8	1.8	1.7	0.5	2.0
Doctor/Therapist	4.7	7.3	7.2	7.4	5.9	9.3	1.2	3.2	3.3	3.2	2.1	3.9
General hospital	12.4	16.2	15.9	16.7	15.2	16.5	19.3	22.3	21.5	24.1	19.5	27.5
Counselling	3.2	3.5	3.1	3.9	3.5	3.9	59.9	59.4	60.4	57.1	67.0	55.0
Rehabilitation	7.0	6.8	6.5	7.2	7.3	7.7	5.9	1.9	1.8	2.2	1.4	1.3
Nursing home	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.0
Others	25.8	14.1	16.6	10.0	13.6	12.5	10.6	8.5	8.4	8.5	7.4	6.2
Abstinence at discharge (%)	–	68.4	69.0	67.5	68.8	67.2	–	94.5	94.1	95.2	93.4	94.3
Treatment Termination regular (%)	67.3	77.5	77.7	77.4	77.5	79.3	84.5	90.0	89.5	90.9	90.7	90.3
Treatment outcome assessment positive (%)	67.6	74.6	74.5	74.8	73.6	76.7	83.8	89.3	89.4	88.8	89.7	90.1

Definitions: ^a≤ 59 = sample of patients with an AUD in the German addiction care system under 60 years old; ^bearly = early-onset of the AUD (≤45 years); ^clate = late-onset of the AUD (≥45 years)

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