ReviewJournal of substance abuse treatment2020
Alcohol screening and brief intervention in emergency departments: Review of the impact on healthcare costs and utilization.
Review in Journal of substance abuse treatment, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07675447 (Integrated Digital System for Screening and Brief Intervention to Reduce Harmful Alcohol Consumption - PROSA eTIB), which is not on this map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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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.
Integrated Digital System for Screening and Brief Intervention to Reduce Harmful Alcohol Consumption - PROSA eTIB
Who cites it
13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 26 citations in OpenAlex.
- The effectiveness of digital training on screening, brief interventions, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) for medical and health professionals: a systematic review.British medical bulletin · 2025Pooled it
- Emergency department-initiated oral naltrexone for patients with moderate to severe alcohol use disorder: A pilot feasibility study.Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine · 2025Trial
- Use of an Automated Bilingual Digital Health Tool to Reduce Unhealthy Alcohol Use Among Latino Emergency Department Patients: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2023Trial
- Educational video module for increasing treatment rates for alcohol use disorders in inpatients.World journal of hepatology · 2026Article
- Quantifying the portrayal of alcohol-related A&E attendances and prevention in the British medical documentary series '24 hours in A&E'.Journal of public health (Oxford, England) · 2025Article
- Effectiveness of the guided self-change intervention for reducing alcohol use in adolescents with and without history of cannabis use.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Personalised care for people with excessive alcohol use following an episode of self-harm: a mixed methods community case study in a psychiatric liaison team.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Dual diagnosis and their care pathways for help-seeking: A multicenter study from India.Indian journal of psychiatry · 2024Article
- Emergency services utilization by patients with alcohol-associated hepatitis: An analysis of national trends.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2024Article
- Alcohol Prevention in Urgent and Emergency Care (APUEC): Development and Evaluation of Workforce Digital Training on Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral for Treatment.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Factors related to substance use treatment attendance after peer recovery coach intervention in the emergency department.Drug and alcohol dependence reports · 2022Article
- 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 · 2022Review
- Barriers to implementation of pediatric emergency department interventions for parental tobacco use and dependence: a qualitative study using the theoretical domains framework.Implementation science communications · 2022Article
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Authors and funding
4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
purposeTo review the published evidence of the impact of alcohol screening and brief intervention (SBI) delivered in emergency departments (EDs) on healthcare utilization and costs. PRINCIPAL
resultsThis scoping review used existing literature reviews supplemented with an electronic database. We included studies if they assessed SBIs for alcohol delivered in an ED setting and reported healthcare utilization and/or costs. We abstracted methodological approaches and healthcare utilization outcomes from each study and categorized them based on substance of focus (alcohol only vs. alcohol and other substances). We updated cost estimates from each study to 2018 U.S. dollars. We identified seven studies published between 2010 and 2019 that met study inclusion criteria. Two of the seven studies evaluated SBI that targeted both alcohol and other substances. Six studies found a reduction in healthcare utilization or costs, and one found an increase in healthcare utilization. MAJOR
conclusionsThis literature review suggests that SBI delivered in ED settings can be a cost-reducing approach to treating excessive alcohol consumption, a factor that policy-makers and payers might consider in prioritizing interventions.
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