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CAN SCREENING AND SIMPLE WRITTEN ADVICE REDUCE EXCESSIVE ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION AMONG EMERGENCY CARE PATIENTS?
Author(s) -
Cecilia Nordqvist,
Elisabeth Wilhelm,
Kent Lindqvist,
Preben Bendtsen
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
alcohol and alcoholism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.747
H-Index - 99
eISSN - 1464-3502
pISSN - 0735-0414
DOI - 10.1093/alcalc/agh175
Subject(s) - advice (programming) , alcohol consumption , alcohol , medicine , simple (philosophy) , excessive alcohol consumption , psychiatry , medical emergency , emergency medicine , computer science , biochemistry , chemistry , philosophy , epistemology , programming language
Emergency care patients have an overrepresentation of risky drinkers. Despite the evidence on the effectiveness of a short feedback on screening or self-help material, most studies performed so far have required considerable time from staff and thus been difficult to implement in the real world. The present study evaluates the effect of the screening and whether simple written advice has any additional effect on risky drinking.

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