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Improving Care for Unhealthy Alcohol Use in Primary Care

NCT04565899 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 42

Last updated 2026-04-20

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Summary

In order to improve the quality of alcohol-related care for those with unhealthy alcohol use, the current research will use an evidence-based implementation strategy, practice facilitation, at one VA primary care site to pilot test whether practice facilitation has the potential to improve the quality of primary care-based alcohol-related care . It is hypothesized that primary care providers who take part in the practice facilitation intervention will provide higher quality substance use care to Veterans with unhealthy alcohol use compared to care pre-practice facilitation (e.g., administer evidence-based brief counseling interventions at higher rates, prescribe alcohol use disorder pharmacotherapy at higher rates, increase referrals to specialty substance use disorder clinics).

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Practice facilitation implementation intervention

6 months during which practice facilitation is implemented to support the primary care clinic in improving routine, population-based screening, assessment, treatment, and follow-up for unhealthy alcohol use and AUDs.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • VA Office of Research and Development

    lead FED

Principal Investigators

  • Rachel L. Bachrach, PhD MS · VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, MI

  • Emily C. Williams, PhD MPH · VA Puget Sound Health Care System Seattle Division, Seattle, WA

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-02-25
Primary Completion
2024-12-31
Completion
2025-05-01

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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