Unhealthy Alcohol Use Tools & Resources

Systematic review of UAU screening tools for pregnant women, including T-ACE, TWEAK, CAGE, NET, and the AUDIT-C

Studied the use of the AUDIT and AUDIT-C in family medicine clinics to predict alcohol dependence

Adaptation of the original 2004 guide that encourages the use of medical management when treating alcohol use disorders in clinical pharmacotherapy research and clinical settings

Guides physicians in the use of medications to help patients abstain from alcohol use; describes how medications work, whom they benefit, and side effects for 3 FDA-approved medications: acamprosate, disulfiram, and naltrexone

A 2-question tool that helps providers assess patient readiness for behavior change using a 1-10 scale

Medicaid and Medicare coding, billing, and reimbursement manual for Wisconsin clinic and administrative staff to support implementation of SBIRT services

Overview of the NIAAA Helping Patients Who Drink Too Much guide for primary care physicians to address UAU in patients

A validation study of the single item screening test for UAU, recommended by NIAAA

Model for translating research into practice using concepts from the areas of quality improvement, chronic care, diffusion of innovations, and measures of the population-based effectiveness of translation

Discusses an intervention in which implementing SBI for UAU was associated with decreased blood pressure in hypertensive primary care patients