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Lookup NU author(s): Professor Eileen KanerORCiD, Dr Katie Haighton, Paul McNamee, Emeritus Professor Senga Bond
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This trial evaluated the clinical impact and cost-effectiveness of strategies promoting screening and brief alcohol intervention (SBI) by nurses in primary care. Randomisation was at the level of the practice and the interventions were: written guidelines (controls, n=76); outreach training (n=68); and training plus telephone-based support (n=68). After 3 months, just 39% of controls implemented the SBI programme compared to 74% of nurses in trained practices and 71% in trained and supported practices. Controls also screened fewer patients and delivered fewer brief interventions to risk drinkers than other colleagues. However, there was a trade-off between the extent and the appropriateness of brief intervention delivery with controls displaying the least errors in overall patient management. Thus cost-effectiveness ratios (cost per patient appropriately treated) were similar between the three strategies. Given the potential for anxiety due to misdirected advice about alcohol-related risk, the balance of evidence favoured the use of written guidelines to promote SBI by nurses in primary care. © 2002 Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
Author(s): Kaner E, Lock C, Heather N, McNamee P, Bond S
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Patient Education and Counseling
Year: 2003
Volume: 51
Issue: 3
Pages: 277-284
ISSN (print): 0738-3991
ISSN (electronic): 1873-5134
Publisher: Elsevier Ireland
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0738-3991(02)00242-2
DOI: 10.1016/S0738-3991(02)00242-2
PubMed id: 14630384
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