ArticleAmerican journal of medical quality : the official journal of the American College of Medical Quality2018
An Initial Assessment of the Utility of Validated Alcohol and Drug Screening Tools in Predicting 30-Day Readmission to Adult General Medicine Wards.
Article in American journal of medical quality : the official journal of the American College of Medical Quality, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- Association of unhealthy alcohol use reported in routine outpatient screening with 30-day hospital readmission risk.Journal of substance use and addiction treatment · 2026Article
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- Clinical Implementation of an AI Algorithm for Substance Misuse Screening in Hospitalized Adults.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- Effects of a structured SBIRT training program for hospital nursing leaders on utilization of SBIRT within their medical-surgical units: cohort study.BMC nursing · 2025Article
- Validation of screening instruments for alcohol and substance use disorders among men and women in Eastern Cape, South Africa.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2025Article
- Medications and Patient Factors Associated With Increased Readmission for Alcohol-Related Diagnoses.Mayo Clinic proceedings. Innovations, quality & outcomes · 2022Article
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Previous studies have identified drug and alcohol use as risk factors for readmission using claims data, but not by using substance use screening scores. This preliminary study tested the hypothesis that prevalence of 30-day readmission would be higher among patients screening positive on the 10-item Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT-10) or the 10-item Drug Abuse Screening Test (DAST-10) tools at intake than among the general patient population. Social workers screened 4708 adult inpatients using prescreening questions followed by the AUDIT-10 and/or DAST-10. Patients with positive screens were followed for readmissions within 30 days of discharge. A positive screening score on the AUDIT-10 or DAST-10 instrument at intake was associated with higher risk of readmission to the general medicine wards within 30 days; this relationship appears complex and subject to mediation. Post hoc chart review found that the majority of readmissions among patients with positive screens were not immediately attributable to substance use. Further study is needed to verify these preliminary findings.
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