Episode 1.5 - Lit Review - Will this hospitalized patient develop severe alcohol withdrawal?

A review of the paper by Evan Wood et al in JAMA 2018: "Will this hospitalized patient develop severe alcohol withdrawal"

We discuss a brief overview of alcohol withdrawal, and what a JAMA Rational Clinical Examination Systematic Review says on which hospitalized patients will develop severe alcohol withdrawal. We also talk about trying to predict which patients who present to the hospital in alcohol withdrawal will go on to develop severe alcohol withdrawal vs mild or moderate withdrawal.