Comparison of provider-documented and patient-reported brief intervention for unhealthy alcohol use in VA outpatients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Performance measures for brief alcohol interventions (BIs) are currently based on provider documentation of BI. However, provider documentation may not be a reliable measure of whether or not patients are offered clinically meaningful BIs. In particular, BI documented with clinical decision support in an electronic medical record (EMR) could appear identical irrespective of the quality of BI provided. We hypothesized that differences in how BI was implemented across health systems could lead to differences in the proportion of documented BI recalled and reported by patients across health systems.

Methods

Male outpatients with unhealthy alcohol use identified by confidential satisfaction surveys (2009-2012) were assessed for whether they reported receiving BI in th

SUBMITTER: Lapham GT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4620927 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature