Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment With Substance Use Disorders in the Emergency Room Setting

Stopped early · Early Phase 1

Conditions studied: Substance Use

In brief

This study will be a quality improvement project to review the effectiveness and barriers to effectiveness of a new clinical program in the emergency room to provide substance use screening followed by brief motivational interviewing and referral to treatment for patients who meet criteria for problem substance use. This study will consist of a chart review of the results of the screens performed by substance use counselors and correlating them to institutional variables such as wait time in the emergency room and length of stay as well as to patient variables obtained by chart review such as medical diagnosis and sociodemographic variables.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01661517

Run by

University of Alabama at Birmingham

People needed

5271

Starts

2011-09-01

Expected to finish

2015-05-01

Last updated by the study team

2016-10-18

Who can join

Age: 19 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Age 19 and older Presentation to UAB Emergency Department

You may not qualify if…

• Younger than 19 Prisoners

Where it is running

• University of Alabama Birmingham — Birmingham, Alabama, United States

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