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01-12-2015 | Oral presentation
Do chief complaints allow targeting of SBIRT in the Emergency Department?
Authors:
Ryan McCormack, Phoebe Gauthier, Bridget McClure, Lauren Moy, Mei-Chen Hu, Martina Pavlicova, Edward V Nunes, David A Thompson, Raul Mandler, Michael Bogenschutz, Gail D'Onofrio, John Rotrosen
Published in:
Addiction Science & Clinical Practice
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Special Issue 2/2015
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Excerpt
Emergency Department (ED)-based Screening, Brief Interventions and Referral for Treatment (SBIRT) for alcohol and drug use has the potential to impact public health greatly. Time and resource constraints limit implementation [
1]. Targeted intervention may be more efficient and practical. We hypothesized that we could use chief complaints to identify patients at highest risk of positive drug or alcohol use assessments. …