Title

Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment: A Nursing Perspective

Authors

Chenit Ong-Flaherty, University of San FranciscoFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2012

Abstract

Screening, brief intervention and referral to treatment (SBIRT) was first initiated by the World Health Organization (WHO) in the mid 1980’s in recognition of alcohol as an important contributor of ill health, mental health issues, injuries from trauma, and social problems .¹ For example, in 2002, 3.2% of deaths worldwide were attributed to alcohol use.¹ SBIRT has been successfully implemented in primary care and emergency departments and globally.^1-11 In emergency medicine, SBIRT has been mandated by the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma for all Level I trauma centers in the United States.⁸ There are a few studies, however, with results that question the efficacy of SBIRT to reduce alcohol use at longer term, at 12 months of follow-up. ^{7, 9-10}

Comments

This work is a post-print version of an article published by Elsevier.

The published version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jen.2011.09.009

DOI

10.1016/j.jen.2011.09.009

Recommended Citation

Ong-Flaherty, C. (2012). Screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment: A nursing perspective. Journal of Emergency Nursing: JEN : Official Publication of the Emergency Department Nurses Association, 38(1), 54-56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jen.2011.09.009