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Implementation of a clinical pathway may improve alcohol treatment outcome

Overview of attention for article published in Addiction Science & Clinical Practice, March 2015
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Title
Implementation of a clinical pathway may improve alcohol treatment outcome
Published in
Addiction Science & Clinical Practice, March 2015
DOI 10.1186/s13722-015-0031-8
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Anette Søgaard Nielsen, Bent Nielsen

Abstract

This article describes the design, implementation, and evaluation of a clinical pathway system in a two-cohort quasi-experimental study before and after implementation, controlling for confounders. The main outcome measures were retention in care and sensible alcohol use (defined as abstinent or drinking no more than 21 standard drinks per week). Patients with harmful alcohol use or dependence as their primary problem who were seeking psychosocial treatment at one of four alcohol clinics in Denmark participated in the study. After implementation of the clinical pathway system, which incorporated a structured intake, a referral and independent follow-up system, checklists, audit, and feedback, there was no change in length of stay, but significantly more patients had a good clinical outcome (stopped or moderated their consumption) at the end of treatment (OR = 1.9; 1.2-3.1). The study documents the feasibility of using a clinical pathway framework, incorporating a local monitoring system, checklists, audit, and feedback to enhance treatment quality and improve outcomes for alcohol use disorders.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Ethiopia 1 2%
Unknown 46 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 9 19%
Student > Master 7 15%
Student > Bachelor 5 11%
Student > Postgraduate 3 6%
Librarian 2 4%
Other 10 21%
Unknown 11 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 10 21%
Medicine and Dentistry 9 19%
Social Sciences 4 9%
Psychology 4 9%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 2 4%
Other 6 13%
Unknown 12 26%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 03 April 2015.
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#16,048,009
of 25,374,917 outputs
Outputs from Addiction Science & Clinical Practice
#345
of 487 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#147,472
of 273,966 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Addiction Science & Clinical Practice
#11
of 20 outputs
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