SynthesisBMJ (Clinical research ed.)2004
Effectiveness of opportunistic brief interventions for problem drinking in a general hospital setting: systematic review.
Synthesis in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2004. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
34 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Pooled it
- Specialty substance use disorder services following brief alcohol intervention: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2015Pooled it
- Efficacy of brief alcohol screening intervention for college students (BASICS): a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2012Pooled it
- Will emergency and surgical patients participate in and complete alcohol interventions? A systematic review.BMC surgery · 2011Pooled it
- Brief interventions for heavy alcohol users admitted to general hospital wards.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2011Pooled it
- A systematic review and meta-analysis of health care utilization outcomes in alcohol screening and brief intervention trials.Medical care · 2011Pooled it
- Preoperative behavioural intervention to reduce drinking before elective orthopaedic surgery: the PRE-OP BIRDS feasibility RCT.Health technology assessment (Winchester, England) · 2020Trial
- Relay model for recruiting alcohol dependent patients in general hospitals--a single-blind pragmatic randomized trial.BMC health services research · 2016Trial
- Trial
- A multisite randomized controlled trial of brief intervention to reduce drinking in the trauma care setting: how brief is brief?Annals of surgery · 2014Trial
- Randomised controlled trial of a brief alcohol intervention in a general hospital setting.Trials · 2013Trial
- Screening and brief interventions for hazardous and harmful alcohol use among hospital outpatients in South Africa: results from a randomized controlled trial.BMC public health · 2013Trial
- Testing the effects of brief intervention in primary care for problem drug use in a randomized controlled trial: rationale, design, and methods.Addiction science & clinical practice · 2012Trial
- Screening and brief intervention for alcohol problems in Dr George Mukhari Hospital out-patients in Gauteng, South Africa: a single-blinded randomized controlled trial protocol.BMC public health · 2012Trial
- A randomised controlled trial of extended brief intervention for alcohol dependent patients in an acute hospital setting (ADPAC).BMC public health · 2011Trial
- The effectiveness of brief intervention among injured patients with alcohol dependence: who benefits from brief interventions?Drug and alcohol dependence · 2010Trial
- Physical health and drinking among medical inpatients with unhealthy alcohol use: a prospective study.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2010Trial
- A brief alcohol intervention for hazardously drinking incarcerated women.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2010Trial
- Some medical inpatients with unhealthy alcohol use may benefit from brief intervention.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2009Trial
- Implementation of a Hospital-Based Screening and Treatment Program for Unhealthy Alcohol Use.Journal of general internal medicine · 2026Article
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
objectiveTo determine the effectiveness of opportunistic brief interventions for problem drinking in a general hospital setting.
designSystematic review. DATA SOURCES: Medline, PsychInfo, Cochrane Library, reference lists from identified studies and review articles, and contact with experts.
main outcome measureChange in alcohol consumption.
resultsEight studies were retrieved. Most had methodological weaknesses. Only one study, with a relatively intensive intervention and a short follow up period, showed a significantly large reduction in alcohol consumption in the intervention group.
conclusionsEvidence for the effectiveness of opportunistic brief interventions in a general hospital setting for problem drinkers is still inconclusive.
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