Lost in translation: The perils of implementing alcohol brief intervention when there are gaps in evidence and its interpretation.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

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.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. The "Outcome Reporting in Brief Intervention Trials: Alcohol" (ORBITAL) Core Outcome Set: International Consensus on Outcomes to Measure in Efficacy and Effectiveness Trials of Alcohol Brief Interventions.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2021
   Pooled it
2. A randomised trial of a computer-delivered screening and brief intervention for postpartum alcohol use.Drug and alcohol review · 2016
   Trial
3. The development of the Pan American Health Organization digital health specialist on alcohol use.Frontiers in digital health · 2022
   Article
4. Correlates of mild, moderate, and severe Alcohol Use Disorder among adults with problem substance use: Validity implications for DSM-5.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2021
   Article
5. Documented brief intervention associated with reduced linkage to specialty addictions treatment in a national sample of VA patients with unhealthy alcohol use with and without alcohol use disorders.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2020
   Article
6. Prevention, screening, and treatment for heavy drinking and alcohol use disorder.The lancet. Psychiatry · 2019
   Review
7. Association of Mental Health Disorders With Health Care Utilization and Costs Among Adults With Chronic Disease.JAMA network open · 2019
   Article
8. Extending alcohol brief advice into non-clinical community settings: a qualitative study of experiences and perceptions of delivery staff.BMC health services research · 2019
   Article
9. The 'Outcome Reporting in Brief Intervention Trials: Alcohol' (ORBITAL) framework: protocol to determine a core outcome set for efficacy and effectiveness trials of alcohol screening and brief intervention.Trials · 2017
   Article
10. Commentary on Kim et al. (2017): Staying focused on non-treatment seekers.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2017
    Article
11. A Research Agenda to Advance the Coordination of Care for General Medical and Substance Use Disorders.Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) · 2017
    Article
12. Decreases in self-reported alcohol consumption following HIV counseling and testing at Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda.BMC infectious diseases · 2014
    Article

Corrections and comments

• Commented on by
  Big issues.2014
• Comment on
  Should brief interventions in primary care address alcohol problems more strongly?2014

Authors and funding

1 author.

Funding

Abstract

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