Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment With Substance Use Disorders in the Emergency Room Setting

Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment With Substance Use Disorders in the Emergency Room Setting (Screening and Brief Treatment for Substance Use Disorders in the Emergency Room Department)

Status

Terminated

Phases

Early Phase 1

Study type

Interventional

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT01661517

Enrollment

5271

Registered

2012-08-09

Start date

2011-09-30

Completion date

2015-05-31

Last updated

2016-10-18

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Conditions

Substance Use

Keywords

substance use treatment

Brief summary

This study will be a quality improvement project to review the effectiveness and barriers to effectiveness of a new clinical program in the emergency room to provide substance use screening followed by brief motivational interviewing and referral to treatment for patients who meet criteria for problem substance use. This study will consist of a chart review of the results of the screens performed by substance use counselors and correlating them to institutional variables such as wait time in the emergency room and length of stay as well as to patient variables obtained by chart review such as medical diagnosis and sociodemographic variables.

Interventions

BEHAVIORALMotivational interviewing and referral to treatment

Study design

Allocation

Intervention model

SINGLE_GROUP

Primary purpose

SCREENING

Masking

NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

19 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* Age 19 and older Presentation to UAB Emergency Department

Exclusion criteria

* Younger than 19 Prisoners

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
substance use	2 years

Countries

United States

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026