SynthesisMedical care2011
A systematic review and meta-analysis of health care utilization outcomes in alcohol screening and brief intervention trials.
Synthesis in Medical care, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02343874 (Impact of Alcohol Consumption of the General Population Who Visited Primary Health Care Centers on the Use of Health Care Resources in Catalonia.), which is not on this map. Cited by 28 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
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The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Impact of Alcohol Consumption of the General Population Who Visited Primary Health Care Centers on the Use of Health Care Resources in Catalonia.
Who cites it
28 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 66 citations in OpenAlex.
- Specialty substance use disorder services following brief alcohol intervention: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2015Pooled it
- The impact of brief alcohol interventions in primary healthcare: a systematic review of reviews.Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire)Pooled it
- Economic Cost of the HealthCall Smartphone Intervention to Reduce Heavy Alcohol Drinking in Adults With HIV.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2023Trial
- The short-term impact on economic outcomes of SBIRT interventions implemented in reproductive health care settings.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2021Trial
- Feasibility and Acceptability of a Text Message-Based Intervention to Reduce Overuse of Alcohol in Emergency Department Patients: Controlled Proof-of-Concept Trial.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2020Trial
- A Randomized Evaluation of Motivational Interviewing Training for Mandated Implementation of Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention in Trauma Centers.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2016Trial
- Brief Motivational Interventions Are Associated With Reductions in Alcohol-Impaired Driving Among College Drinkers.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2015Trial
- Randomized clinical trial of the effects of screening and brief intervention for illicit drug use: the Life Shift/Shift Gears study.Addiction science & clinical practice · 2014Trial
- Disseminating alcohol screening and brief intervention at trauma centers: a policy-relevant cluster randomized effectiveness trial.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2014Trial
- 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
- Study protocol: a randomized controlled trial of a computer-based depression and substance abuse intervention for people attending residential substance abuse treatment.BMC public health · 2012Trial
- Population-oriented health promotion and disease prevention interventions in primary healthcare: a scoping review of reviews.BMC primary care · 2026Article
- Emergency services utilization by patients with alcohol-associated hepatitis: An analysis of national trends.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2024Article
- A randomized controlled trial of recovery management checkups for primary care patients: Twelve-month results.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2023Article
- Effectiveness of Screening and Brief Alcohol Intervention at the Workplace: A Study Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial at Five Japan-Based Companies.Yonago acta medica · 2021Article
- Clinical Recognition of Substance Use Disorders in Medicaid Primary Care Associated With Universal Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT).Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2021Article
- Perceptions of the barriers, facilitators, outcomes, and helpfulness of strategies to implement screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment in acute care.Implementation science : IS · 2021Article
- Alcohol screening and brief intervention in emergency departments: Review of the impact on healthcare costs and utilization.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2020Review
- A Behavioral Health Program for Alcohol Use Disorder, Substance Abuse, and Depression in Chronic Liver Disease.Hepatology communications · 2019Article
- Brief Interventions in Primary Care: an Evidence Overview of Practitioner and Digital Intervention Programmes.Current addiction reports · 2018Review
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
objectiveThis systematic review and meta-analysis examines the effect of screening and brief intervention (SBI) on outpatient, emergency department (ED), and inpatient health care utilization outcomes. Much of the current literature speculates that SBI provides cost savings through reduced health care utilization, but no systematic review or meta-analysis examines this assertion.
methodPublications were abstracted from online journal collections and targeted Web searches. The systematic review included any publications that examined the association between SBI and health care utilization. Each publication was rated independently by 2 study authors and assigned a consensus methodological score. The meta-analysis focused on those studies examined in the systematic review, but it excluded publications that had incomplete data, low methodological quality, or a cluster-randomized design.
resultsSystematic review results suggest that SBI has little to no effect on inpatient or outpatient health care utilization, but it may have a small, negative effect on ED utilization. A random effects meta-analysis using the Hedges method confirms the ED result for SBI delivered across settings (standardized mean difference = -0.06, I = 13.9%) but does not achieve statistical significance (confidence interval: -0.15, 0.03).
conclusionsSBI may reduce overall health care costs, but more studies are needed. Current evidence is inconclusive for SBI delivered in ED and non-ED hospital settings. Future studies of SBI and health care utilization should report the estimated effects and variance, regardless of the effect size or statistical significance.
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