Evaluation of a Pilot Implementation to Integrate Alcohol-Related Care within Primary Care.

ABSTRACT: Alcohol use is a major cause of disability and death worldwide. To improve prevention and treatment addressing unhealthy alcohol use, experts recommend that alcohol-related care be integrated into primary care (PC). However, few healthcare systems do so. To address this gap, implementation researchers and clinical leaders at Kaiser Permanente Washington partnered to design a high-quality Program of Sustained Patient-centered Alcohol-related Care (SPARC). Here, we describe the SPARC pilot implementation, evaluate its effectiveness within three large pilot sites, and describe the qualitative findings on barriers and facilitators. Across the three sites (N = 74,225 PC patients), alcohol screening increased from 8.9% of patients pre-implementation to 62% post-implementation (p <

SUBMITTER: Bobb JF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5615567 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature