%0 Journal Article
%T What are the Implications for Policy Makers? A Systematic Review of the Cost-Effectiveness of Screening and Brief Interventions for Alcohol Misuse in Primary Care
%A Colin Angus
%A Jessica Li
%J Frontiers in Psychiatry
%D 2014
%I Frontiers Media
%R 10.3389/fpsyt.2014.00114
%X Introduction: The efficacy of screening and brief interventions (SBIs) for excessive alcohol use in primary care is well established; however, evidence on their cost-effectiveness is limited. A small number of previous reviews have concluded that SBI programs are likely to be cost-effective but these results are equivocal and important questions around the cost-effectiveness implications of key policy decisions such as staffing choices for delivery of SBIs and the intervention duration remain unanswered.
%K alcohol drinking
%K screening and brief intervention
%K primary care
%K systematic review
%K policy making
%K resource allocation
%K brief alcohol intervention
%K brief intervention
%U http://www.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyt.2014.00114/abstract