Receipt of evidence-based alcohol-related care in a national sample of transgender patients with unhealthy alcohol use: Overall and relative to non-transgender patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background/objective

Evidence-based alcohol-related care-brief intervention for all patients with unhealthy alcohol use and specialty addictions treatment and/or pharmacotherapy for patients with alcohol use disorder (AUD)-should be routinely offered. Transgender persons may be particularly in need of alcohol-related care, given common experiences of social and economic hardship that may compound the adverse effects of unhealthy alcohol use. We examined receipt of alcohol-related care among transgender patients compared to non-transgender patients in a large national sample of Veterans Health Administration (VA) outpatients with unhealthy alcohol use.

Methods

We extracted electronic health record data for patients from all VA facilities who had an outpatient visit 10/1/09-7/

SUBMITTER: Williams EC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8665023 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature