Alcohol Counseling Reflects Higher Quality of Primary Care

Counseling in Primary Care Improves Depression and Quality of Life

INTRODUCTION To measure the effectiveness on Quality of Life of adjunctive cognitive behavioral counseling in the setting of General Practitioners (GPs) along with the treatment as usual (TAU;) for the treatment of depression. METHODS Six month-controlled trial of patients who were referred to randomly assigned GPs (four for experimental group of patients and ten for the control) was done. Ex...

Provider training for patient-centered alcohol counseling in a primary care setting.

OBJECTIVE To assess the impact of a brief training program on primary care providers' skills, attitudes, and knowledge regarding high-risk and problem drinking. DESIGN Training plus pretesting and posttesting for program efficacy. SETTING Ambulatory primary care clinic; academic medical center. PARTICIPANTS Fourteen attending physicians, 12 residents, and 5 nurse practitioners were random...

Screening and behavioral counseling interventions in primary care to reduce alcohol misuse.

Screening and behavioral counseling interventions in primary care to reduce alcohol misuse: recommendation statement.

This statement summarizes the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommendations on behavioral counseling interventions to reduce alcohol misuse in primary care patients and updates the 1996 recommendations on this topic. The complete information on which this statement is based, including evidence tables and references, is available in the accompanying article in this issue and in th...

Primary care quality digest Primary care quality digest

The authors of this paper note that although ‘there is general agreement that primary care is the linchpin of effective health care delivery’ there are no systematic reviews of the evidence which may support this. This study aimed to identify the core dimensions of primary care, assessing the evidence for their relation with and relevance to outcomes. Kringos DS, Boerma WGW, Hutchinson A, van d...