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1 Planning and Implementing Screening and Brief Intervention for Risky Alcohol Use A Step-by-Step Guide for Primary Care practices National center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities Suggested Citation centers for disease control and prevention . Planning and Implementing Screening and Brief Intervention for Risky Alcohol Use: A Step-by-Step Guide for Primary Care practices . Atlanta, Georgia: centers for disease control and prevention , National center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, 2014. Acknowledgments John C. Higgins-Biddle, PhD. Carter Consulting Inc. centers for disease control and prevention National center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities Daniel W. Hungerford, DrPH. centers for disease control and prevention National center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities Susan D.

2 Baker, MPH. Carter Consulting Inc. centers for disease control and prevention National center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities Megan R. Reynolds, MPH. centers for disease control and prevention National center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities Nancy E. Cheal, PhD. centers for disease control and prevention National center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities Mary Kate Weber, MPH. centers for disease control and prevention National center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities Elizabeth P. Dang, MPH. centers for disease control and prevention National center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities Joseph E. Sniezek, MD, MPH. centers for disease control and prevention National center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities Contents INTRODUCTION ..4. Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention: A Critical Clinical Preventive Service.

3 4. Purpose of the Guide .. 5. The 6. I. LAYING THE GROUNDWORK ..7. Step 1: Understand the Need for Alcohol SBI .. 7. Step 2: Get Organizational Commitment .. 10. II. ADAPTING ALCOHOL SBI TO YOUR PRACTICE ..11. Step 3: Plan for Screening .. 11. Step 4: Plan for Brief Intervention .. 15. Step 5: Establish Referral Procedures .. 17. III. Implementing ALCOHOL SBI IN YOUR PRACTICE ..18. Step 6: Orientation and 18. Step 7: Plan a Pilot 19. Step 8: Support a Strong Start-Up .. 20. IV. REFINING AND Step 9: Monitor and Update Your 21. Step 10: Share Your Success .. 21. V. APPENDICES ..22. Appendix A: Our Alcohol SBI Service .. 22. Appendix B: Alcohol SBI Fact Sheet .. 26. Appendix C: What's a Standard Drink? .. 28. Appendix D: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders .. 29. Appendix E: Negative Effects of Risky and Binge Drinking .. 31.

4 Appendix F: Single Question Alcohol Screen .. 32. Appendix G: AUDIT 1-3 (US) .. 33. Appendix H: AUDIT (US) Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test .. 34. Appendix I: Other Screening Instruments .. 36. Appendix J: Screening for Drug 37. Appendix K: Orienting Staff to Alcohol SBI .. 39. Appendix L: How Do Patients React to Alcohol Screening ? The Cutting Back Study .. 41. Appendix M: Training for Screening Staff .. 42. Appendix N: Brief Intervention Guidance .. 43. Appendix O: Training to Deliver Brief Interventions .. 45. Appendix P: Follow-Up System .. 47. Appendix Q: Billing .. 48. Appendix R: Tips for Communicating about Your Alcohol SBI Services .. 49. References .. 50. Introduction Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention: A Critical Clinical Preventive Service Like hypertension or tobacco Screening , alcohol Risky drinking affects your patients' Screening and Brief intervention (alcohol SBI) is a Risky drinking can have many negative health effects clinical preventive service.

5 It identifies and helps including increasing the risk of hypertension, stroke, patients who may be drinking too much. It involves: type 2 diabetes, cancers (breast, upper gastrointestinal A validated set of Screening questions to identify tract, and colon), cirrhosis of the liver, injury, and patients' drinking patterns, violence. Risky drinking is also associated with increased body weight and can impair short- and long . A short conversation with patients who are drinking term cognitive function. Binge drinking is associated too much, and for patients with severe risk, a referral with a wide range of other health and social problems, to specialized treatment as warranted. including sexually transmitted diseases, unintended The entire service takes only a few minutes, is pregnancy, and violent crime. See Appendix E, Negative inexpensive, and may be reimbursable.

6 Thirty years Effects of Risky and Binge Drinking. of research has shown that alcohol SBI is effective at reducing the amount of alcohol consumed by those who are drinking too much. Based on this evidence,1,2,3,4. the Preventive Services Task Force5 and many other organizationsa have recommended that alcohol SBI be implemented for all adults in primary health care settings. a Examples of select professional organizations: American Academy of Family Physicians: The AAFP recommends Screening and behavioral counseling interventions to reduce alcohol misuse by adults, including pregnant women, in primary care settings. (2004). American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists: At-risk drinking and alcohol dependence: obstetric and gynecologic implications. Committee Opinion No. 496. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

7 Obstet Gynecol 2011;118:383 8. American Medical Association: American Medical Association. House of Delegates, Policy: Screening and Brief Interventions for Alcohol Problems. American Academy of Pediatrics: Policy Statement: Substance Use Screening , Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment for Pediatricians Committee on Substance Abuse Pediatrics 2011; 128:5 e1330-e1340. 4 centers for disease control and prevention Purpose of the Guide This guide is designed to help an individual or small Planning team adapt alcohol SBI to the unique operational realities of their primary care practice. It Implementing takes them through each of the steps required to plan, implement, and continually improve this preventive alcohol SBI. service as a routine element of standard practice. Rather in your practice than prescribing what the alcohol SBI services should look like, the Guide will help you and your colleagues should be create the best plan for your unique situation.

8 A team effort. Planning and Implementing Screening and Brief Intervention for Risky Alcohol Use: A Step-by-Step Guide for Primary Care practices 5. II. I. III. IV. Adapting Laying Implementing Refining Alcohol SBI. the Alcohol SBI in and to Your Groundwork Your Practice Promoting Practice The Process The Guide consists of 10 steps arranged in four major sections. Although the steps are presented sequentially, you may find that it makes sense to address some of them concurrently. As you consider the decisions you must make to design and implement your program, you can use Appendix A, Our Alcohol SBI Service, to record your decisions. This What is the difference appendix can serve not only as a historical record of between SBI and SBIRT? your decisions, but as a framework for making needed The acronym SBI originated in the refinements over time as your practice gains experience mid-1990s to refer to Screening and comfort with alcohol SBI.

9 And Brief intervention research. I. Laying the Groundwork Most study protocols called for 1. Familiarize the Planning team with alcohol SBI referral of dependent patients to why it is an important medical service and how specialty treatment services. In it works the fall of 2003 the Substance 2. Ensure that practice leaders are committed to Abuse and Mental Health Services Implementing alcohol SBI. Administration (SAMHSA) initiated II. Adapting Alcohol SBI to Your Practice a grant program designed to 3. Plan Screening procedures encourage implementation of SBI. 4. Plan Brief intervention procedures SAMHSA added and referral to treatment to the program title, 5. Establish procedures to refer patients with severe problems which changed the acronym to SBIRT. to emphasize the role of treatment Alcohol SBI in Your Practice services agencies.

10 When RT is 6. Train staff for their specific roles added to the acronym and program 7. Pilot test and refine your plan title, some people may misinterpret 8. Manage initial full implementation so it succeeds this to mean that all patients who screen positive should be referred IV. Refining and Promoting to treatment, which is not the case. 9. Monitor and improve your alcohol SBI plan Therefore, CDC has chosen to use over time the traditional acronym of SBI. 10. Publicize your efforts so that others can learn from your experience 6 centers for disease control and prevention I. II. III. IV. Laying Adapting Alcohol SBI. Implementing Refining the to Your Alcohol SBI in Your Practice and Promoting Practice Groundwork I. Laying the Groundwork Implementing any new service in a primary care practice typically requires changes in routines and job duties.