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01-09-2013 | Meeting abstract
Cost to conduct screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) in healthcare settings
Authors:
Carolina Barbosa, 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
This paper presents data from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) cross-site evaluation of the third cohort of SAMHSA grantees implementing screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) services in selected sites. Cost estimates for SBIRT service provision are needed because in the present environment, healthcare expenditures will need to be justified fiscally. The objective of the current paper is to determine the costs of delivering individual SBIRT components as well as the program as a whole. …