Screening for Substance Use Disorders/Alcohol Use Disorder

Advises community behavioral health care settings on how to implement team-based care, including providing a team-based care model

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

Provides brief overview of U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendation, screening questions, example workflow, and billing and coding information to help family physicians implement screening and brief intervention

Study of health care utilization after implementation of SBIRT in primary care, which finds that the costs of implementing SBIRT would be offset by reduction in health care utilization

Systematic review of studies identifying barriers and facilitators that influence implementation of screening and brief intervention for alcohol use in primary care settings

Describes a screening system and workflow developed for primary care and behavioral health integration in a rural clinic that involves use of tablets and a provider alert in the electronic health record

Finds that self-administered screening and screening at any primary care visit is associated with greater detection of high-risk alcohol use, and that clinics with more practice facilitation have greater implementation of the counseling script for those who screen positive

Evaluates patient satisfaction, acceptability, and components of implementation of in-person SBIRT compared with electronic-SBIRT in health care settings

Discusses some of the challenges with billing and coding for SBIRT and lessons learned from Oregon adding SBIRT as a performance metric

Compiles links to resources, tools, and information sheets aimed at helping primary care physicians integrate behavioral health services into patient care