Quality Improvement and Implementation Science

Supports integration of screening tools into the electronic health record (EHR) by documenting findings that inclusion of the Drug Abuse Screening Test into the EHR increased both screenings and provider intervention for positive screenings

Toolkit that provides guidance, tips, and examples to help support future efforts to engage practices in quality improvement initiatives

Presents types of virtual practice facilitation, techniques for implementing practice facilitation activities virtually, and examples of virtual practice facilitation sessions

Describes the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System Clinical Quality Measure for SBIRT

Offers interactive modules for practice facilitators with comprehensive and practical information about unhealthy alcohol use that can be applied to primary care practices

Describes randomized controlled trial that uses practice facilitation for implementing screening, counseling, and treatment for unhealthy alcohol use, proposing that practice facilitation can make changes related to managing unhealthy alcohol use within a practice

Reviews literature on the role of practice facilitators in settings aiming to deliver integrated behavioral health and primary care,

Report concludes that offering SBIRT in emergency department settings produces overall cost savings

Systematic review to evaluate the measures of effectiveness, efficiency, and quality that result from the utilization of telemedicine in the management of alcohol abuse, addiction, and rehabilitation

Provides the 2021 specifications and information needed to implement the electronic clinical quality measures for initiation and engagement of alcohol and other drug dependence treatment