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01-09-2013 | Meeting abstract
A time-in-motion study of screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) implementation in healthcare settings
Authors:
Alexander J Cowell, William N Dowd, Justin Landwehr, Jeremy W Bray
Published in:
Addiction Science & Clinical Practice
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Special Issue 1/2013
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Excerpt
Between 2004 and 2013, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) funded six cohorts of grantees to implement screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) services in selected sites. This paper presents data from the cross-site evaluation of the third cohort of state/tribal grantees on how staff allocate their time performing SBIRT activities (e.g. a screen). Because SBIRT activities such as screens may take little time to perform, data that rely on practitioner report to obtain such data may be inaccurate. Estimates gathered by observing practitioners’ time are likely to be more accurate. …