Trial reportJournal of general internal medicine2008
Alcohol counseling reflects higher quality of primary care.
Trial report in Journal of general internal medicine, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.
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Who cites it
15 citing papers in PubMed.
- Measuring Trust in Primary Care.The Milbank quarterly · 2023Review
- Interprofessional education as a potential foundation for future team-based prevention of alcohol use disorder.BMC medical education · 2023Article
- Utilizing a Faculty Development Program to Promote Safer Opioid Prescribing for Chronic Pain in Internal Medicine Resident Practices.Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) · 2019Article
- Screening for Unhealthy Alcohol Use.JAMA · 2018Article
- Increased Rates of Documented Alcohol Counseling in Primary Care: More Counseling or Just More Documentation?Journal of general internal medicine · 2018Article
- Comparison of provider-documented and patient-reported brief intervention for unhealthy alcohol use in VA outpatients.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2015Article
- Association Between Receipt of Brief Alcohol Intervention and Quality of Care among Veteran Outpatients with Unhealthy Alcohol Use.Journal of general internal medicine · 2015Article
- Drinking patterns of older adults with chronic medical conditions.Journal of general internal medicine · 2013Article
- Physicians' attitudes toward unhealthy alcohol use and self-efficacy for screening and counseling as predictors of their counseling and primary care patients' drinking outcomes.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2013Article
- The impact of primary care: a focused review.Scientifica · 2012Review
- Privacy protection for patients with substance use problems.Substance abuse and rehabilitation · 2011Article
- Do health educator telephone calls reduce at-risk drinking among older adults in primary care?Journal of general internal medicine · 2010Article
- Interventions targeting HIV-infected risky drinkers: drops in the bottle.Alcohol research & health : the journal of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism · 2010Review
- Gaps in addressing problem drinking: overcoming primary care and alcohol treatment deficiencies.Current psychiatry reports · 2009Review
- Screening, brief interventions, referral to treatment (SBIRT) for illicit drug and alcohol use at multiple healthcare sites: comparison at intake and 6 months later.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2009Article
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Abstract
backgroundSome primary care physicians do not conduct alcohol screening because they assume their patients do not want to discuss alcohol use.
objectivesTo assess whether (1) alcohol counseling can improve patient-perceived quality of primary care, and (2) higher quality of primary care is associated with subsequent decreased alcohol consumption.
designA prospective cohort study. SUBJECTS: Two hundred eighty-eight patients in an academic primary care practice who had unhealthy alcohol use. MEASUREMENTS: The primary outcome was quality of care received [measured with the communication, whole-person knowledge, and trust scales of the Primary Care Assessment Survey (PCAS)]. The secondary outcome was drinking risky amounts in the past 30 days (measured with the Timeline Followback method).
resultsAlcohol counseling was significantly associated with higher quality of primary care in the areas of communication (adjusted mean PCAS scale scores: 85 vs. 76) and whole-person knowledge (67 vs. 59). The quality of primary care was not associated with drinking risky amounts 6 months later.
conclusionsAlthough quality of primary care may not necessarily affect drinking, brief counseling for unhealthy alcohol use may enhance the quality of primary care.
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