Commentary on Blow et al. (2017): Leveraging technology may boost the effectiveness and adoption of interventions for drug use in emergency departments.

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

4 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

1. Payment and Financing for Substance Use Screening and Brief Intervention for Adolescents and Adults in Health, School, and Community Settings.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2022
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2. Implementing a text-messaging intervention for unhealthy alcohol use in emergency departments: protocol for implementation strategy development and a pilot cluster randomized implementation trial.Implementation science communications · 2022
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3. Implementations of a text-message intervention to increase linkage from the emergency department to outpatient treatment for substance use disorders.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2019
   Article
4. Substance use and homelessness among emergency department patients.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2018
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Corrections and comments

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  A randomized controlled trial of brief interventions to reduce drug use among adults in a low-income urban emergency department: the HealthiER You study.2017

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Funding

Abstract

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