The Effectiveness of Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention in Emergency Departments: A Multicentre Pragmatic Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial

Drummond, Colin; Deluca, Paolo; Coulton, Simon; Bland, Martin; Cassidy, Paul; Crawford, Mike; Dale, Veronica; Gilvarry, Éilish; Godfrey, Christine; Heather, Nick; McGovern, Ruth; Myles, Judy; Newbury‐Birch, Dorothy; Oyefeso, Adenekan; Parrott, Steve; Patton, Robert; Perryman, Katherine; Phillips, Tom; Shepherd, J.; Touquet, Robin; Kaner, Eileen

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0099463

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The Effectiveness of Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention in Emergency Departments: A Multicentre Pragmatic Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial

Published in PLoS ONE • Jun 25, 2014

Authors:

Colin Drummond

Paolo Deluca

Simon Coulton

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Alcohol misuse is common in people attending emergency departments (EDs) and there is some evidence of efficacy of alcohol screening and brief interventions (SBI). This study investigated the effectiveness of SBI approaches of different intensities delivered by ED staff in nine typical E...

Subject

Medicine

Randomized controlled trial

Brief intervention

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