Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral to Treatment (SBIRT)

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Patient Screening for Integrated Behavioral Health in Adult Primary Care: A Rapid Review of Effective Procedures

Review that explores the evidence base for performing screening for behavioral health conditions in primary care; suggests the need for additional research on the efficacy of behavioral health screening strategies and implementation techniques

Motivational Interviewing in Health Care,
Second Edition: Helping Patients Change Behavior

Helps health care practitioners use motivational interviewing with patients and provides tools to enhance providers' ability to assist patients with healthy decision making

Integrating Primary Care and Behavioral Health to Address the Behavioral Health Crisis

This publication describes approaches for integrating behavioral health (including mental health and substance use) care into primary care and how integrated practices can provide better services to meet mental health, substance use, and other medical needs.

Integrating Alcohol-Related Prevention and Treatment Into Primary Care: A Cluster Randomized Implementation Trial

Describes the intervention from the Sustained Patient-Centered Alcohol-Related Care (SPARC) trial and the increases in screening and brief intervention as a result of the trial. It does not include alcohol use disorder treatment engagement in primary care

Improving Screening, Treatment, and Intervention for Unhealthy Alcohol Use in Primary Care Through Clinic, Practice-Based Research Network, and Health Plan Partnerships: Protocol of the ANTECEDENT Study

Describes the protocol of the ANTECEDENT study, an implementation study designed to support primary care clinics in Oregon adopting screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment and medication-assisted treatment for alcohol use disorder workflows to address unhealthy alcohol use

Financing the Future of Integrated Care

This decision support tool and accompanying integrated care billing modules, including those related to substance use, offer guidance to provider organizations on how to finance integrated care.

Digital Health Interventions to Enhance Prevention in Primary Care: Scoping Review

Review that identifies and describes the scope and use of current digital health interventions in primary care settings, including apps that can be used for substance use disorders

Designing, Implementing and Sustaining Physical Health-Behavioral Health Integration: The Comprehensive Healthcare Integration Framework

This framework guides the implementation of integration of physical and behavioral health (including mental health and substance use) for all child and adult populations. The framework can be used by any provider in a broad range of settings and organizations.

CMS Behavioral Health Strategy

Summarizes the goals, objectives, and supporting activities of the CMS Behavioral Health Strategy, which aims to support a person's whole emotional and mental well-being through covering multiple elements, including access to prevention and treatment services for substance use disorders, mental health services, crisis intervention, and pain care

Barriers and Facilitators to Substance Use Disorder Treatment: An Overview of Systematic Reviews

Provides overview of systematic reviews on substance use disorder treatment, finding that structural factors are the most common barriers and facilitators to treatment

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