Open AccessEmergency physician screening and management of trauma patients with alcohol involvement
Author(s) -
Kai H. Lee,
James B Olsen,
Jiandong Sun
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of emergencies, trauma and shock
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.313
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 0974-519X
pISSN - 0974-2700
DOI - 10.4103/jets.jets_140_16
Subject(s) - medicine , intervention (counseling) , family medicine , descriptive statistics , emergency department , brief intervention , medical emergency , confidence interval , emergency medicine , psychiatry , statistics , mathematics
Alcohol screening and brief intervention (SBI) in trauma patients has been reported in literature to be effective in changing harmful drinking patterns and injury recurrence. Despite good evidence that SBI can benefit patients and provide a more holistic care, it is not routinely implemented in acute medical settings in Australia, in particular emergency departments (EDs).