ArticleFrontline gastroenterology2013
Salford alcohol assertive outreach team: a new model for reducing alcohol-related admissions.
Article in Frontline gastroenterology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04447079 (Assertive Community Treatment for Alcohol Misuse Disorder Patients Who Are High Utilizers of Emergency Department Services), which is not on this map. Cited by 9 papers.
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Assertive Community Treatment for Alcohol Misuse Disorder Patients Who Are High Utilizers of Emergency Department Services: - A Prospective, Multi-centre, Before-and-After Cohort Study
Who cites it
9 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.
- Models of care for the management of alcohol use disorder in general hospital settings and transition to the community: a scoping review.Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire) · 2026Article
- Exploring views and experiences of a unique alcohol assertive outreach model, the primary care alcohol nurse outreach service (PCANOS): a qualitative study.BMC primary care · 2025Article
- A qualitative exploration of the barriers and facilitators to the implementation of the alcohol assertive outreach model.Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire) · 2025Article
- Why Are Some Male Alcohol Misuse Disorder Patients High Utilisers of Emergency Health Services? An Asian Qualitative Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- A new paradigm in management of frequent attenders to emergency departments with severe alcohol use disorder-A pilot study for assertive community treatment in Singapore.Frontiers in health services · 2022Article
- Evaluation of an Assertive Management and Integrated Care Service for Frequent Emergency Department Attenders with Substance Use Disorders: The Impact Project: Evaluating an assertive management service for frequent ED attenders with substance use disorders.International journal of integrated care · 2020Article
- Assertive outreach treatment versus care as usual for the treatment of high-need, high-cost alcohol related frequent attenders: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.BMC public health · 2020Article
- Alcohol care teams: where are we now?Frontline gastroenterology · 2020Review
- The impact of alcohol care teams on emergency secondary care use following a diagnosis of alcoholic liver disease - a national cohort study.BMC public health · 2016Article
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13 authors at 6 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
objectiveAlcohol-related admissions are increasing. A significant number of these admissions are attributable to a small number of complex patients with other comorbidities who do not engage well with mainstream services. Assertive outreach teams have been used in the field of psychiatry to engage patients who are poorly compliant. This study examines whether an alcohol assertive outreach team (AAOT) can engage with this group and reduce hospital admissions.
designThe AAOT is a multidisciplinary team with medical, psychiatric, substance misuse, psychology, nursing and social work specialists. The team worked with patients with the highest number of alcohol-related admissions and case managed in a community setting for 6 months. The admission and emergency department attendances of the cohort were compared for the 3-month period before and after the intervention. Christo inventory for substance misuse services (CISS) scores were determined pre and post the intervention period.
results54 patients were case managed. The total number of admissions in 3 months fell from 151 prior to the intervention period to 50 following the intervention. Emergency department attendances also fell from 360 in 3 months to 146 following the intervention period. CISS scores fell from 11 preintervention to eight postintervention.
conclusionsAn AAOT model appears to reduce hospital admissions and emergency department attendances in a complex group of patients that display high alcohol-related admissions.
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