49% for women), L is the liver clearance rate (assumed to be .017/hour for those reporting a usual quantity of less than 2 drinks/day and .020/hour for reporting 2 or more drinks/day) and H is the number of hours from the last drink to arrival at the ER. As patient weight was not available, average country-specific weight values were used for men and women based on data from the GENACIS (Rahav et al., 2006) collection of survey data from a large number of countries worldwide.
