Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral to Treatment (SBIRT)

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Screening and Interventions for Social Risk Factors: A Technical Brief to Support the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force

This technical brief highlights research on screening and interventions for social risk factors, including screening for substance use, and presents gaps in the research as well as challenges of implementing these interventions.

SBIRT-Plus: Adding Population Health Innovations to Enhance Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention Effectiveness

Describes the benefits of screening, brief intervention and referral to treatment (SBIRT)-Plus, which is focused on increasing the reach of SBIRT by aiming for systems-level changes and benefits on a broader population scale

SBIRT Training Preview (eSBIRT)

Produced by Screening and Brief Intervention in Missouri (formally mosbirt.org), this website provides resources to support primary care providers in becoming skilled at identifying and addressing risky alcohol and drug use

Resources for Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT)

This web page provides updated resources, including guides and tools from SAMHSA, for practitioners related to screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT).

Promote Practice Change: Take Manageable Steps Toward Better Care

Outlines how practices can improve care for patients with unhealthy alcohol use, including four basic steps to build a system of care, and includes a chart demonstrating alcohol screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment as a top evidence-based clinical preventive service in terms of health impact and cost-effectiveness

Program Evaluation on the Use of the Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) Process in Primary Care Physician Offices

Describes results of a program evaluation conducted with thousands of primary care physician practices in the State of Pennsylvania, recommending that practices identify SBIRT resources and support, conduct roundtable discussions with physicians, and establish SBIRT champions within their practice

Primary Care and Mental Health: Overview of Integrated Care Models

Summarizes models of care for mental health in primary care settings, including using nurse practitioners to screen, diagnose, and treat common conditions such as alcohol use disorder. Nurse practitioners can take a continuing education test online after reading this article for a small fee

Practice Facilitation to Implement Alcohol-related Care in Veterans Health Administration Liver Clinics: A Study Protocol

Describes the methodology of a study that aims to test a 6-month practice facilitation for managing unhealthy alcohol use in Veterans Health Administration liver clinics

Pahola

Pahola is PAHO's first artificial intelligence (AI) health specialist and the only AI digital health worker in the world that specializes in alcohol-related topics. Pahola can communicate interactively - in three languages (English, Portuguese, and Spanish) - with people about their alcohol consumption, assess their risk, help them reduce or stop alcohol use, or direct them to resources for treatment and recovery

One Degree: Shift the Influence

An update to AHRQ's systematic review protocol on outpatient pharmacotherapy for adults with alcohol use disorder in April 2022

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