The best evidence for alcohol screening and brief intervention in primary care supports efficacy, at best, not effectiveness: you say tomāto, I say tomăto? That's not all it's about.

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

14 citing papers in PubMed.

1. A Health Technician-delivered Brief Intervention linked to AUDIT for reduction of alcohol use in Chilean primary care: a randomized controlled trial.Addiction science & clinical practice · 2021
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2. Attitudes and Learning through Practice Are Key to Delivering Brief Interventions for Heavy Drinking in Primary Health Care: Analyses from the ODHIN Five Country Cluster Randomized Factorial Trial.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2017
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3. Adjusting the 15-method to Danish general practice: identification of barriers, facilitators, and user needs.BMC primary care · 2024
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4. Social Equity in the Efficacy of Computer-Based and In-Person Brief Alcohol Interventions Among General Hospital Patients With At-Risk Alcohol Use: A Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR mental health · 2022
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5. Producing co-production: Reflections on the development of a complex intervention.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2020
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6. 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
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7. Gender Disparities in Patients With Alcoholic Liver Disease Evaluated for Liver Transplantation.Transplantation · 2020
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8. Brief Interventions in Primary Care: an Evidence Overview of Practitioner and Digital Intervention Programmes.Current addiction reports · 2018
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9. Scaling-up primary health care-based prevention and management of heavy drinking at the municipal level in middle-income countries in Latin America: Background and protocol for a three-country quasi-experimental study.F1000Research · 2017
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10. Can routine information from electronic patient records predict a future diagnosis of alcohol use disorder?Scandinavian journal of primary health care · 2016
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11. Strategies to Overcome Barriers to Implementation of Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention in General Practice: a Delphi Study Among Healthcare Professionals and Addiction Prevention Experts.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2016
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12. Impact of a multicomponent screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) training curriculum on a medical residency program.Substance abuse · 2016
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13. Brief Interventions for Alcohol Use: Where, When, and How?Pediatrics · 2015
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14. Correlates of Opioid Use in Adults With Self-Reported Drug Use Recruited From Public Safety-Net Primary Care Clinics.Journal of addiction medicine
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Corrections and comments

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  The efficacy-effectiveness distinction in trials of alcohol brief intervention.2014

Authors and funding

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Funding

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Abstract

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