General practitioner screening for excessive alcohol use
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Screening and brief intervention for excessive alcohol use: qualitative interview study of the experiences of general practitioners.
OBJECTIVE To explore the suitability of a screening based intervention for excessive alcohol use by describing the experiences of general practitioners who tried such an intervention in their everyday practice. DESIGN Qualitative interviews with general practitioners who had participated in a pragmatic study of a combined programme of screening and a brief intervention for excessive alcohol u...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.326.7384.336