Implementing SBIRT (Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment) in primary care: lessons learned from a multi-practice evaluation portfolio

Table 2 Numbers of patients receiving screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment by type of condition

	Eligible for screening	Pre-screens completed	Positive pre-screens	Full screens completed	Positive full screens	Brief interventions^a	Referrals to treatment^b
Alcohol Abuse	22,360	12,697	2864	7361	1840	1009 (54.8%)	209 (20.7%)
Drug Abuse	16,419	5581	392	7303	1335	442 (33.1%)	172 (38.9%)
Adolescent Drug & Alcohol Abuse	9087	1868	421	794	55	91 (165.5%)	25 (27.5%)
Depression	23,861	14,062	3659	3706	2294	1050 (45.8%)	693 (66%)
Anxiety	2303	2186	537	74	10	8 (80%)	7 (87.5%)
Child Safety	1190	n/a	n/a	1057	251	193 (76.9%)	38 (19.7%)
Tobacco	1350	n/a	n/a	1340	418	315 (75.4%)	158 (50.2%)

^aPercentage of positive full screens. Some practice sites administered a brief intervention regardless of the full screen score
^bPercentage of brief interventions. Some practices bypassed brief interventions and referred some patients directly to treatment
n/a Not applicable as there were no pre-screening tools available

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